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...Daly, and E. S. Larsen Jr. will go to Spain this spring on geological expeditions. Professor Mather leaves at the end of this month for ElkHills oilfields, where he will remain for four weeks in an effort to get information for the government's use in a law suit which it has been carrying on for some time. It is in connection with the Teapot Dome oil scandal of two summers ago. The Elk Hills fields were leased to Doheney at the same time as Sinclair secured Teapot Dome. "I don't know what I'll find," Professor Mather told...
...Schacht was obliged to admit that he had written the song-poem in question, that he had sold it to the publisher many years ago "for a song." None the less he started suit "to protect the dignity of the Reichsbank"?demanded that The Minstrel's Waltz be suppressed once and for all. Shrewd lawyers opined that the suit will certainly defeat its aim?if that be suppression of publicity...
...Elysees, Paris. His impressive uniform proclaimed him a huissier, a process-server. With dignity he delivered to one of the hotel clerks a paper serving notice upon the abdicated Crown Prince Carol of Roumania that his first (morganatic) wife, Zizi Lambrino, had arrived at Paris from Bucharest and started suit to recover 10 million fanes from him, avowedly on the grounds that she is still his wife. Zizi. It. was recalled that the Roumanian Government has sufficiently indicated its conception of the validity of her marriage (1918) to Carol, by declaring it annulled (1919) and granting her a modest pension...
Upon such grounds as these impends a suit before whose complications the most intrepid jurists were struck dumb...
Then on Feb. 13, before stock payments, the U. S. district attorney at Manhattan doused that hardy enthusiasm, filed suit in Federal Court there to restrain promotion of the food products concern as a potential violator of the Clayton anti-trust act. The food corporation lawyers laughed, called the suit "a joke." In "about ten minutes" an answer could be prepared, would be filed the next day. None was. Last week lawyers came into court and abjectly consented to the modification of the corporation's intents...