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...Dixon appointment caused job-shuffling in Secretary Ray Lyman Wilbur's department. Edward Clingan Finney, chief (though passive) subordinate of Albert Bacon Fall and Hubert Work in the leasing and releasing of Teapot Dome, Elk Hills and Salt Creek oil fields, was demoted to the post of Solicitor. Ernest Odell Patterson, who as Solicitor wrote the opinions upholding the Salt Creek contracts with Oilman Sinclair, was removed...
...like all animals, needs salt (sodium chloride) physiologically. But his taste for salt is an acquired habit. Cannibals, Eskimos and other carnivorous peoples, use no salt. Like dogs, cats, jackals, lions, they get their requisite sodium chloride from the flesh they eat raw, or roasted. (Boiled flesh loses its salt.) Most men, however, are omnivorous. The salt they get from fish, fowl and beast is too little for bodily needs...
...topcoat, Bill. Sure, that'll come out all right. If it doesn't take it over to the Chem lab. Sure they will. They teach you how in Chem A. Ever take that, Bill? Yes, over in Boylston. When we were Freshmen. We used to make salt, too. Twenty-five grams impure they gave you. No, they don't test your stuff. I got nine grams yield and the rest from the Dining Halls. B plus. It's a cinch. Yeah, mine too. The thing got all clogged up with salt and the whole lab almost choked...
...Debated a minority report on the Salt Creek oil leases censuring the Department of the Interior, of Justice. ¶ Debated a bill to stiffen prohibition violation penalties. Missouri's Reed spoke passionately. Threatened to, but did not, name by name dry Senators who drink. ¶ Ratified the first treaty with China's Nationalist Government, a treaty recognizing Chinese tariff autonomy...
...mere pittance of 40 guineas ($200) a week, the Crown will rent sumptuous Craigwell House, in Aldwick Village near Bognor-on-Sea. A private beach, an electric organ, a private cinema-theatre, and hot & cold running salt & fresh water will be at His Majesty's disposal. Ap propriately enough, the owner is Sir Arthur Du Cros, President of Dunlop, Ltd., famed tyre makers, vaunters of the slogan: "As British As The Flag!" Dyspeptic persons addicted to taking Beecham's Pills espe cially rejoiced, last week, for Sir Arthur is also a director of "Beecham...