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...cases were practically identical, even as to the evidence presented, except as to part of the evidence of fraud. In the Doheny case, there was undisputed evidence that Mr. Doheny had made a loan of $100,000 in cash (carried in the black satchel) to Secretary of the Interior Fall when the Doheny leases were under consideration. In the Sinclair case, the only admitted payment to Fall was one of $25,000 in Liberty Bonds made after the latter had left office. The Government tried to establish that Fall had also received several hundred thousand dollars in Liberty Bonds which...
...Judge Kennedy found that President Harding's executive order transferring control of the Naval Oil Reserves from the Secretary of the Navy to the Secretary of the Interior was lawful...
...imposts. The public utilities have been left alone. Instead of harrying the railroads in the state, legislation was actually passed to help them issue preferred stock. The rails are responding by undertaking new branch lines through the state which will have a great bearing on real-estate values in interior localities...
Only one cloud dimmed this otherwise clear sky, and this soon blew over. Owners of shorefront property are permitted to acquire title to lowlands in front of their holdings. Some of the interior representatives contended that such title should not automatically pass, hut should be acquired only from the state. Shorefront property holders have benefitted by millions through the present law, and for once they shivered slightly when the proposal was made to halt the present practise. But the proposed repeal was soon put into the discard by the triumphant clan of realtors; and Florida's record...
...smiling Sunday morning in Budapest, just after people were returning from early mass, news-venders did an unusually thriving business. The journal in demand was the Royalist As Ujsag (The News). In it, Edmund Beniczky, ex-Minister of the Interior and present leader of the Legitimists in the National Assembly, charged Admiral Horthy, the Regent, with direct complicity in the mysterious murder of two Socialist editors, Somogyi and Basco, which occurred in February, 1920* That so serious a charge could go unchallenged was, of course, impossible. The Government ordered the arrest of M. Beniczky, but not on the charge...