Word: circuiting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Government won a victory in its attempt to recover the Teapot Dome naval oil reserves which onetime (1921-23) Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall had leased to the Mammoth Oil Co. (a Harry F. Sinclair institution). Judge William Squire Kenyon- presiding judge of Iowa, in the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals at St. Louis, reversed the decision of the Wyoming district court (TIME, June 29, 1925); ordered it to cancel the Mammoth Oil Co.'s leases and to demand an accounting of the oil which had been taken from Teapot Dome.+ The company was enjoined from trespassing...
...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...
...guest of Robert I. Bentley, head of the local organization, spoke, as is his wont, said in effect what he has said many times before, that the time will come before long when great and now frequently wasted U. S. opera talent will have its full opportunity in a circuit of organizations producing the masterpieces of music drama all over...
...apprentice, Baron Strathcona at 94 was respected as one of the builders of the Canadian Pacific Railway, was known as the "Grand Old Man"* of Canada. Lady Strathcona's son, Capt. Donald Howard, accedes to the baronetcy. Died. Henry Wade Rogers, 72, famed Judge of the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals, onetime Dean of the Yale Law School, onetime President of Northwestern University; at Trenton, N. J. Jurist Rogers, aggressive, forced the "case system" on conservative Yale law-dons, as stumbling old "Kit" Langdell had done to Harvard 25 years before. Died. Gaitan Ardisson, 74, sculptor-adviser...
...Gore of West Virginia received a letter signed, in behalf of a great many of his fellow West Virginians, by the United Mine Workers of America. He was asked to call a special session of the legislature for impeachment proceedings against Judge I. Grant Lazzelle of the Monongalia County circuit. The miners charged that Judge Lazzelle, who, with his brothers and sister, leases coal lands to operators in Monongalia County and enjoys fat royalties, was guilty of "maladministration, corruption, incompetency and neglect of duty." Lately he refused the miners an injunction against four coal companies that had allegedly abrogated...