Word: canceled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Less than three months after he had taken the case under advisement, Federal Judge T. Blake Kennedy of Cheyenne, Wyo., rendered a decision. The case was the suit of the U. S. to cancel the lease of Naval Oil reserve No. 3 (known as Teapot Dome) to Harry F. Sinclair's oil interests. The decision was that the lease should stand...
Only three weeks previously, Federal Judge Paul J. McCormick, Los Angeles, before whom was tried a similar case?the Government trying to cancel the lease of Naval Oil Reserve No. 1 (known as Elk Hills) to the Doheny interests?had rendered his decision (TIME, June 8). He had decided that the lease should be cancelled. The Two Cases. In each case, the Government charged 1) fraud and conspiracy in the execution of the leases, 2) the lessor's lack of authority to make the leases...
After the signing of the recent Russo-Japanese Treaty (TIME, Feb. 2), the Bolshevik Government was obliged to cancel the oil concession granted to Harry F. Sinclair on the island of Saghalin. This they did legally through the Moscow District Court (TIME, Apr. 6). Mr. Sinclair subsequently announced his intention of appealing to the Bolshevik Supreme Court...
Without stopping to cancel the contracts for motorizing the gondolas, chiefly because none had been made, Mussolini hastened to assure his juvenile petitioner that nothing could persuade him to "destroy the peace and quiet which forms one of the chief charms of this wonderful city...
...dear Mr. Editor, I do not cancel my subscription; I shall renew it next February, for I like TIME and appreciate the service it gives and the lively way in which...