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...long distance Bell Telephone operator last week plugged a Detroit and Chicago office into connection. In the Chicago office was Lawyer Aaron Sapiro, organizer of farmers' co-operative associations, who had a $1,000,000 libel suit pending against Henry Ford (TIME, March 21, 28). Interconnected with his office telephone so that his long distance talk with Detroit could be witnessed were the telephones of his associates and representatives of Mr. Ford. In the Detroit office was a similar arrangement. The telephone of Clifford B. Longley, general counsel for the Ford Motor Co. was "hooked up" with those of Lawyer...
...suit was based upon statements appearing in a series of articles published in 1924 and 1925 by the Dearborn Independent upon the subject matter of co-operative associations organized on the Sapiro plan. ... It has since been found that inaccuracies of fact were present in the articles and that erroneous conclusions were drawn from these inaccuracies by the writer...
...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 the District of Columbia Supreme Court. When these two decisions should be reached, it appeared that the Oil Scandals would then become definitely a matter of history...
...Hills-Dome half-brothers became paired again. For though Messrs. Fall and Doheny had been acquitted on a charge of conspiracy, there still remained against them indictments for bribery. Fall-Doheny attorneys had attacked the validity of these indictments after the U. S. Supreme Court's civil suit decision that the transfer of the Elk Hills lease from the Navy Department to the Department of the Interior (1921) had been illegal. The lawyers claimed that, assuming that this transfer was illegal, Mr. Fall had no authority to deal with Mr. Doheny on the leasing question. And in a previous...
...Referring to Mr. Ford's testimony in his $1,000,000 libel suit against the Chicago Tribune...