Word: interior
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...outstanding business woman" and Judge Florence E. Allen of Columbus, Ohio, as the "most outstanding professional woman" of the nation. Miss Ruby is the only U. S. woman engaged in the business of ecclesiastical art. She designs, builds and installs art-glass church windows and also attends to the interior decoration of churches. Judge Allen has been on the bench of the Supreme Court of Ohio since 1923, was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the U. S. Senate...
...from which only three or four pounds of latex trickled previously were made to produce pails of the valuable liquid, reaching, in some instances, a total of more than 100 pounds a year, so the story goes. No hitches were reported in the experiments, which, carried on in the interior of the islands, were not publicly discussed until those interested were thoroughly satisfied with results and all details of the operation economically worked...
...charge of conspiracy, there still remained against them indictments for bribery. Fall-Doheny attorneys had attacked the validity of these indictments after the U. S. Supreme Court's civil suit decision that the transfer of the Elk Hills lease from the Navy Department to the Department of the Interior (1921) had been illegal. The lawyers claimed that, assuming that this transfer was illegal, Mr. Fall had no authority to deal with Mr. Doheny on the leasing question. And in a previous case a federal court had decided that no bribery charge could be brought against an official...
Last week, however, Justice William Hitz of the District of Columbia Supreme Court ruled that the bribery indictments were valid. Justice Hitz ruled that the Harding order transferring the Elk Hills reserve to the Department of the Interior "had the force of law until revoked or declared invalid." He said that "an official act need not be a lawful act to render the official liable but need only be official in form and done under the color of his office." Therefore the bribery indictments held good and Messrs. Fall and Doheny would have to stand trial under them...
...salaries, frank conferences with girl pupils, geography as a basis of international peace; for?as always?dignifying public education by putting a U. S. Secretary of Education in the President's Cabinet as head of a Federal Education Department (instead of the present "Bureau" under the Department of the Interior with advisory powers only...