Word: bacons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...well with another of the Government's oil leases with ill-famed Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair & colleagues. It was a lease on the Salt Creek field in Wyoming, adjacent to memorable Teapot Dome. It was a lease made by President Harding's Secretary Albert Bacon Fall and renewed by President Coolidge's whilom Secretary Dr. Hubert Work. It was a lease which Senator Walsh of Montana, famed oil inquisitor, had suspected and asked to be investigated. President Coolidge had asked his Attorney-General, rustic John Garibaldi Sargent of Vermont, to investigate, last April. Now, in the pressure...
...have a little pride. When they give, they give their shirt; when they take they apologize and soon repay. I don't blame the Red Cross for this, but those stupid, insulting clerks they hire to distribute the provisions. If they know you they give you beans, and bacon, if you are stranger they refuse you and let you starve. This is the first letter she has ever written me in more than 20 years. I must give vent to my emotions. I am not writing for notoreity - not for debates - but for action. Put someone wise. Mr. Baker...
That last sentence would need explaining, because the Underwood bill placed on the free list a lot of things that farmers raise, viz. bacon, hams, hogs, wool, lambs, sheep, corn, wheat, potatoes, rye, milk, cattle...
...President's son has been under watchful eyes in New Haven. He is living at the home of Professor Benjamin Wisner Bacon, 68, staunch Congregationalist, who has recently retired from the faculty of the Yale Divinity School. Host Bacon is an authority on the New Testament. He has written a good-sized shelf of books on the subject.* Big of frame, he used to play football and the violin, equally well, as a Yale undergraduate. John Coolidge has been invited to stay under the Bacon roof (No. 244 Edwards St.) as long as he desires. It is 20 minutes...
...Sheridan, Wyo., tariff was the topic again. Campaigner Curtis, his 68-year-old voice grown husky from daily exercise out doors, recited-"Bacon, hams, buckwheat, cattle, corn, cream, eggs, hogs, lambs, lard, milk, potatoes, rye, sheep and goats, wheat and wool"—free list of the Underwood (1913) law, the law Nominee Smith mentioned favorably in his acceptance speech...