Word: americanize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fall in a little black bag by Oilman Edward Laurence Doheny from an innocent "loan" between old friends to a corrupt and criminal payment to influence the Secretary of the Interior to lease U. S. Naval Oil Reserve No. 1 at Elk Hills. Cal., to Doheny's Pan-American Petroleum Co. It insured the trial of Doheny...
...Samuel Johnson (1709-84) became an issue in the trial. Prosecutor Pomerene cited the fact that the great lexicographer had called patriotism the last refuge of a scoundrel. Quick to see his chance Defender Hogan roared to the jury that this Englishman had vilified American revolutionary leaders, had advised a yardarm hanging for George Washington...
...singing pictures is Marion Davies. Here she is as a French girl in love with Stagg* of the A. E. F. One of the ablest clowns in the cinema she is forced to be sentimental. A skillful pantomimic, she has to talk continually, even sing. Unalterably Irish-American she wears peasant clothes and expresses herself in a language consisting of U. S. baby-talk combined with the foreign word cheri. A French soldier who has gone blind is the dramatic obstruction in her affair with Stagg. Best shot: Marion Davies entertaining a base camp with imitations of Maurice Chevalier, Gloria...
Soon the Nordisk Trust Co.-exclusively financed by U. S. capital of Danish-American extraction-also suspended payments. Nordisk is a heavy shareholder in Folkebank, which in turn has large holdings in Crown Butter and the other Plum butter company, Le Brun...
...reform the law, to have an outing, to see the great, some 4,000 lawyers last week congregated in October-cool Memphis for the 52nd annual meeting of the American Bar Association...