Word: interior
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lawyer Daniel N. Kirby represented the O'Fallon, Frederick H. Wood of Manhattan's famed law firm of Cravath de Gersdorff, Swaine & Wood, represented the big-brother carriers. The I. C. C. accepted the challenge, named Chicago's Walter L. Fisher, Taft-time Secretary of the Interior, to fight its legal battle. Before a Federal Court at St. Louis, the O'Fallon contended that it and the Manufacturers' R. R. were one, and should be so valued. The O'Fallon's excess profits on this basis would have been equalized by the Manufacturers...
...frustrated instincts, he works out a scheme for getting rid of the son who is not his. The camera does not go into his mind but the action does. He and his son climb up a mountain. ... In the end Jannings does not put his scheme into practice; the interior struggle has been decided another way. You may take exception to the scene on the mountain and to one or two others in which superficial events have been slightly diverted as concessions to what is believed to be popular taste. You cannot take exception to Jannings' acting. He does...
quot;People of France," wrote exiled Editor Daudet, who once escaped from La Sante prison through a hoaxed release order telephoned from the office of the Minister of the Interior, "-People of France, how much longer will you permit such ignorant deputies to represent you before the world? Here are 28 of your elected representatives, and they actually believe there is a Kingdom of Poldavia, and that Lamidaeff is its Foreign Minister. Lamidaeff...
When Mrs. Hoover was a co-ed at Stanford, she knew and liked Marguerite May Blake there, a serious-minded girl studying medicine. Miss Blake married Ray Lyman Wilbur, whom Herbert Hoover was to choose for his Secretary of the Interior. Mrs. Wilbur is Mrs. Hoover's closest friend in official Washington...
When Ray Lyman Wilbur left Leland Stanford's presidency to become President Hoover's Secretary of the Interior, there were predictions that the long-discussed Department of Education might now become a reality, with Dr. Wilbur as its first chief...