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...restrain the Mammoth Oil Co. from drilling or operating wells on Teapot Dome. They alleged that the lease to the Mammoth Co. was illegal, 1) because it rested on an in-valid Executive Order of President Harding transferring control of the naval oil reserve to the Department of the Interior; 2) because it was executed without authority of law; 3) because it was made without advertisement or competitive bidding; 4) because Albert B. Fall and Harry F. Sinclair "did combine, conspire and confederate" to defraud the Govern-ment in making it; 5) because Edwin Denby, the then Secretary...
...documentation and official papers, which he reads for diversion. He writes in his own hand from ISO to 200 letters a day. He goes into the French election in the unique position of urging himself on the country as the best Prime Minister, Foreign Minister and Minister of the Interior. His is not a single-track mind, but he is a one-man government...
Sentries outside the Ministries of Finance, Marine and the Interior saw two men running from the scene of the explosion. Within an hour, M. Papanastasion...
Premier, and M. Aravantinos, Minister of the Interior, who had jumped into their clothes with the celerity of U. S. firemen, called on Sir Milne, expressed their regret...
...naval reserve oil scandals (TIME, Feb. 4 et seq.) came to a head many weeks ago when the Senate Public Lands Committee discovered that ex-Secretary of the Interior Fall had received an unsecured loan of $100,000 from Edward L. Doheny about a year before Naval Reserve No. 1 was leased to one of Mr. Doheny's companies. Since then nothing of equal importance has come to light. The investigation has wandered far afield digging up new tidbits to set scandalous tongues wagging for another day, after which a new name or new names were discovered...