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...Government has already won in both the Federal District Court at Los Angeles and in the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals at San Francisco, in its other civil suit to annul Edward L. Doheny leases of the Elk Hills naval oil reserves in California. Last week this case went before the Supreme Court for final decision...
...whiskey instead of a dole. It looked to Kendrick like a good little story. It became an epic. Ruth Pudley's bright-haired presence is even simpler to explain. She was "busted" out of Bryn Mawr for "deplorable contumacy of conduct." She was ready to divorce or annul, her clerical father, "the meanest man in the world." "He practises slurping his soup," she said, "so he can do it louder and louder. He dunks his toast in his coffee and his bread in his tea. He wears out two Bibles a year just clutching at them when he thinks...
...Significance. Foreign nationals noted that, setting aside all question of "retroactiveness," the new laws are designed very nearly to annul the future possibility of an alien's acquiring in Mexico any of the luscious "rights of exploitation" upon which many a non-Mexican purse fattened in the past. Most land-owning corporations will have to be organized with at least 51% of their stock in Mexican banks. Those within 25 miles of the frontier of Mexico must be 100% Mexican. "All natural mixtures of the carbons of hydrogen (i. e., "petroleum," etc.) are vested in the nation," and their transference...
Thereupon, Le Comte asked the Vatican to annul the marriage, ap- parently that he might be free to marry again, within the Church...
...Queen Mother Alexandra, of Premier Stanley Baldwin, of Owen D. Young, of Ambassador Kellogg, of the Prince of Wales, were also transmitted. The man principally responsible for the new radiograph is Captain Richard H. Ranger, who devised the means of sending uniform impulses so that static does not annul the transmission. General J. G. Harbord, President of the Radio Corporation, philosophized: "As we study the forward marches of science and their effect of steadily shrinking the world to what will ultimately become a single, big community of fellow humans, we must admit the growing necessity for the development...