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That afternoon, had the diplomat and his wife been extremely agile, they could have called on seven other Cabinet members who were holding receptions in keeping with the annual custom. Only Attorney General Sargent, whose wife had gone home to frosty Vermont, and Secretary of the Interior Work, who is a widower, did not serve tea. Secretary of the Treasury Mellon, with his son Paul, received at his apartment on Massachusetts Avenue...
...Passed appropriation bill of $260,000,000 for the Department of the Interior. (Bill went to conference...
...happened, they knew not how, that they were the "twelve good men and true," who were selected by lot to decide whether or not Albert B. Fall, onetime Secretary of the Interior, and Edward L. Doheny, oil potentate, were guilty of conspiracy to defraud the U. S. Government (TIME, Dec. 6). Having heard the summing up of Owen J. Roberts and Atlee Pomerene, counsel for the Government, of Frank J. Hogan and Wilton J. Lambert, counsel for the defense, and having received final instructions from Judge Adolph A. Hoehling, the jurors returned to their attic room to balance the scales...
...Minister of Education Herriot, whose Madame Recamier has attained moderate sale in the U. S.* Minister of Public Works Tardieu is known for his America in Arms. The Izaak Walton of the Cabinet is Minister of Colonies Perrier, who has brought forth two books on fishing. Minister of Interior Sarraut has written much on civil government. Finally there stand on many a Parisian bookshelf two fat volumes of poems by Minister of Marine Leygues...
Meanwhile the third British light cruiser squadron and the fourth destroyer flotilla steamed for China from Malta. At Gibraltar a battalion of the Suffolk regiment prepared to embark for China on Jan. 2. Finally the womenfolk and children of British soldiers stationed in the interior of China were ordered last week to return to England. These measures, the War Office suavely explained, were designed to prevent a situation from arising in which His Majesty's Government might have to take military action in China to protect British lives and property...