Word: courtly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...felon in U. S. history. He still owed Oilman Edward Laurence Doheny $100,000 (exclusive of interest) on what he still insists was "a friendly loan" made eight years ago. He owed the U. S. another $100,000-the fine imposed last week after a District of Columbia Supreme Court jury had found the Doheny "loan" corrupt, a bribe. Additional debt to the U. S.: one year of his life in prison. Mr. Fall's assets, both in dollars and years of life, were running...
Though still bronchially ill, the 68-year-old defendant was able to walk into court to hear himself sentenced by Justice William Hitz. The jury had recommended mercy. Justice Hitz said firmly: "Under normal physical conditions {this case} would warrant and require the imposition of the maximum penalty [fine: $300,000 (thrice the bribe); three years imprisonment ]. . . . Because of the recommendation of the jury for mercy I will impose upon Mr. Fall a fine of $100,000 and imprisonment for one year...
...Fall accepted the prison sentence, Justice Hitz said he would, because of Fall's broken health, have suspended it indefinitely. But Fall accepted the full sentence to complete his case for appeal which he will carry first to the District of Columbia Court of Appeals and then on to the same U. S. Supreme Court which in 1926 branded him "a faithless public officer'' on the same evidence when in a civil suit it voided the Doheny-Fall lease for the Elk Hills naval oil reserve...
...Grand Jury promptly certified their behavior to Justice Peyton Gordon of the District of Columbia Supreme Court. Justice Gordon owes his recent elevation to the bench in no small part to the good newspaper treatment he received when, as U. S. District Attorney, he prosecuted some minor ramifications of the oil scandals (TIME, March 12, 1928). No man to let past favors interfere with the course of justice, Judge Gordon found the three newsgatherers in contempt, sentenced them to 45 days in jail, denied them bond. The Times prepared to pay them double salaries during their imprisonment. Its lawyers...
...formal occasions, wears a symbolic golden key, presents to the King-Emperor a daily account of the doings of Parliament while it is in session. Present Vice-Chamberlain of Britain is burly Jack Hayes, Laborite, one-time heavyweight boxer, onetime metropolitan policeman. More than most Laborite factotums of the Court he is irked by his gaudy trappings. Occasionally he rebels. Last month an oil tanker hove back to England's shore from a Mediterranean cruise and out upon the dock stepped Vice-Chamberlain & Mrs. Hayes with their daughter...