Word: districting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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 further on Government property. Judge Kenyon's decision cut straight to the point...
...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...
Meanwhile, the criminal suits against Albert B. Fall, Edward L Doheny, Edward L. Doheny Jr and Harry F. Sinclair, on charges of conspiracy and bribery, are still pending in the District of Columbia Court of Appeals. Here there has been little progress in two and a half years. None of the four men indicted has yet appeared in court...
...second building will be erected in the heart of the dormitory district. It will have two stories of brick construction, with five stores on the ground floor and offices above. Two of the stores have been taken by the owners of the Sandwich Inn, who plan to install another restaurant on the Gold Coast...
...long and 25 feet wide, with three arches spanning the Charles river. It has an exceptionally graceful design and will be faced when completed with white Indiana limestone and bricks on either side. Andrew Lanzanella, state engineer, who is supervising the work on behalf of the Metropolitan District Commission stated that the total cost of the building operations will...