Word: recoverable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last February, indeed, even the courts appeared to have finished with the Elk Hills half of the scandal. By a unanimous decision of the U. S. Supreme Court (Feb. 28, 1927) the Doheny lease on the Elk Hills naval oil reserve was declared invalid and the property was restored to...
So only the Teapot Dome portion of the oil investigation remained unsettled. The Government's civil suit to recover the property is still pending before the U. S. Supreme Court. The Government's criminal suit against Messrs. Fall and Sinclair is to be tried on Oct. 17 in...
Wedding Bills (Raymond Griffith). "He is the worst best man I ever had," says the groom of Mr. Van Twidder. The trouble is that Mr. Van Twidder has been pressed into too many wedding ceremonies, is bored with everything. No former wedding was like this one, however, where he is...
Mr. Blackmer has retained counsel to recover his passport, arguing that he paid $10 for it and therefore it is his property in perpetuum. Experts on international law, however, considered that the right to revoke a passport is included in the Secretary of State's authority to "grant and...
"Most Germans think of me as a kind of monomaniac, as a hairy personification of our poor Alsace-Lorraine, incapable of nourishing other designs than those of vengeance." Thus spoke Raymond Poincaré last week, and spoke the exact truth. Germans do hate and fear him more than any other...