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Thus spake the Lord to Moses. Last week, in the dimness of innumerable U. S. tabernacles, the shofar* sounded, reminding the Jews that the world was created by God out of void and a howling darkness 5,686 years ago. The horn rang at sundown, and at that hour candles, sombre and fierce, like thin yellow hands up-pointed in prayer, shone in the synagogues and wagged incongruously above the mahogany grain of apartment breakfast-room suites where prosperous Jews kept the feast of Rosh Hashonah (the New Year), after their own fashion. Telegraph wires crackled with messages of good...
...expected, the Legislature declares the May election void, Senator Guzman, President of the Senate, a member of the Saavedra faction, will be President of the country until a new election can be held...
Judge McCormick had found the contrary, and had ruled that on this count as well as on the count of fraud and conspiracy, the Doheny leases were void...
...That on these two counts, the contracts and leases obtained by the Doheny companies were void...
...companies is now waiting decision. In the Teapot Dome case, the evidence of fraud was far less impressive-in fact, very fragmentary because so many witnesses were out of the country. But, if the Cheyenne judge follows the same reasoning as the Los Angeles judge, he will void the Teapot Dome lease-on the ground that President Harding had no authority to give Secretary Fall control of the Naval oil reserves...