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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there any fraud or bribery in the making of the leases? The evidence indicates as regards Naval Reserve No. 1 (Elk Hills, Calif.), Mr. Doheny lent Mr. Fall $100,000 about one year before the final contract with the Doheny interests was drawn (TIME, Feb. 4). As regards Naval Reserve No. 3 (Teapot Dome), Mr. Sinclair lent Mr. Fall $25,000 and employed him some two years after the Reserve was leased to Mr. Sinclair, and three or four months after Mr. Fall had left the Cabinet...
...Convention of the United Mine Workers at Indianapolis was marked by drama and commotion. The one matter in which the public was most interested, the question of what wage demands the bituminous miners would make, and whether they would force a strike on April 1 when their wage contract expires, was settled with nothing stronger than argument and the ballot...
...have managed endowment insurance," Mr. Brown continued, "for classes at Princeton, Tech, Williams, and several western colleges, and in each case the lapses have been exceedingly few. Other kinds of pledges are apt to result in desultory payments, but here there is a contract to pay a small amount a year, which is voluntarily entered into and regularly paid, as experience shows...
April 25, 1922, the Doheny interests received a preferential right to lease Reserve No. 1 under a contract to perform certain works for the Navy at Pearl Harbor...
...soon as the judges reach a decision the successful author will receive the $500, which is not in lieu of any royalties. He will also receive a contract guaranteeing a production of the play within six months of its acceptance. In 1922 "You and I" by Philip Barry won the prize and was produced in 1923 in New York and Chicago. In 1923 the award went to Miss Dorothy Kuhn's comedy "The Dud" which is scheduled for production in New York this season...