Word: court
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mysterious social sham which towers in importance over questions of national and international import." After thoroughly flaying everyone else concerned, he urged that a seat at table be found for Mr. Gann and that, if no other solution could be reached, the whole affair be submitted to the World Court...
Meanwhile discussion of a successor to Mr. Herrick's high diplomatic post began. Four names emerged: Frank Billings Kellogg, John Joseph Pershing, Alvan Tufts Fuller, Frederick Henry Prince. President Hoover was faced with the necessity also of finding a new man to represent the U. S. at the court of St. James's. His purpose was to fit a smooth-working team into London and Paris. For the London post only one name really loomed: Charles Gates Dawes...
...indicted, tried, sentenced in the District of Columbia Supreme Court two years ago. His appeal to the Supreme Court was on the ground that the Senate's questions pried illegally into his private affairs, that he was already threatened with court action on the subject-matter of these questions, were not pertinent to the legislation...
These contentions the Supreme Court swept aside as without merit...
Before the Supreme Court is still pending Oilman Sinclair's appeal from a six-month jail sentence, imposed upon him for contempt of court, for jury-tampering in October, 1927. These two offenses were by-products of the larger charge of conspiracy to defraud the U. S. in the leasing of the Teapot Dome naval oil reserves, on which Oilman Sinclair was acquitted last year...