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...Hills naval oil reserves. Next year Lawyer Hogan tried & failed to keep the U. S. Supreme Court from indignantly canceling that lease on grounds of conspiracy and fraud. But then there was no jury for that smart little lawyer to work on. He got a real setback in 1929 when, despite tears and eloquence, a jury convicted Fall of accepting a $100,000 bribe from Mr. Doheny. But five months later Lawyer Hogan triumphantly vindicated himself by persuading another jury that what was a bribe as accepted by Fall had been only a legitimate loan as made by Doheny...
Cast up the balance of your life. On one side of the ledger put all your past pleasures, all the hard-won triumphs and unexpected windfalls, all the satisfactions, material, mental, emotional. On the other side itemize every trouble, setback and sorrow, all the pain, frustration, deprivation and boredom. Now add up your columns and prepare to make an immediate choice of two alternatives...
Attention in the Freshman meet will be focused on Dwight Ellis, elected captain on Monday. He has received only one setback this season--a knockout in the Staunton meet. Coming to Harvard with considerable experience from Culver, he has scored two knockouts, both of them against Varsity men in the M.I.T. and Coast Guard meets...
With only one setback this season, the powerful Freshman swimmers will take the water against Brown this evening at 7.30 o'clock in the Indoor Athletic Building. In the last three meets the Crimson natators have smashed a record or two each time...
With Pete Ward unable to box for the rest of the season because of his appendix, and with Walter Crampton, also a 135-pounder, out with a wrenched ankle, the lineup for the Army meet on Saturday will receive a considerable shift. Ward's loss comes as a major setback, especially since the two hardest contests of the season come within the next two weeks. Rated as the classiest intercollegiate boxer in this section, he has lost just one collegiate bout in three years of competition, that to Louis Wertheimer of Syracuse, the intercollegiate champion...