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...portrait of Benjamin Franklin by Feke, the American painter, is the feature of the Eliot House library. The picture, which hangs directly over the fire-place, is the earliest known portrait of Franklin. On either side of it are paintings of Sir George Downing and of Robert Bacon, Fellow of Harvard University from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EARLIEST KNOWN PORTRAIT OF FRANKLIN IN ELIOT LIBRARY | 10/7/1931 | See Source »

President Hoover last week was spared the embarrassing necessity of saying yes-or-no to the pardon petition of his one-time Cabinet colleague Albert Bacon Fall, now No. 6991 in the New Mexico State Penitentiary. Bribee Fall's plea for executive clemency got no farther than the Department of Justice where Attorney General Mitchell announced that it was automatically denied because it lacked the approval of Trial Judge William Hitz and Prosecutor Atlee Pomerene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Hoover Week: Aug. 24, 1931 | 8/24/1931 | See Source »

...JERRY H. BACON...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 3, 1931 | 8/3/1931 | See Source »

...Food companies held up well. General Foods (Postum, Log Cabin Syrup, Cheek-Neal Coffee, Frosted Foods etc.) showed $10,167,000 against $10,629,000. Beech-Nut Packing (bacon, chewing gum, also a hotel in Rochester, N. Y.) reported $1,172,000 against $1,320,000. Hershey Chocolate's $4,718,000 stood against $4,253,000. During the June quarter William Wrigley Jr. Co. showed a sensational gain from $2,365,000 to $3,057,000. International Salt's first six months' $399,000 compared with last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Cross-Section | 8/3/1931 | See Source »

Thus did Albert Bacon Fall, broken in health and reputation, at last start for the New Mexico State penitentiary at Santa Fe accompanied by his granddaughter Martha and followed by his grieving wife. The night was spent at what was once his great ranch at Three Rivers. Two days later the erstwhile Secretary of the Interior entered the grim grey institution at the foot of the Sangre de Cristo range to pay the penalty for taking a $100,000 bribe from Oilman Edward Laurence Doheny almost ten years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORRUPTION: Fall to Jail | 7/27/1931 | See Source »

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