Word: domes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...November 1927, Sinclair went on trial in Washington for conspiracy to defraud the U. S. in the leasing of the Teapot Dome naval oil reserve. Secretly he hired a squad of 14 detectives from the agency of William J. Burns to "investigate" his jurors. Friend Day actually arranged for their employment and received their daily reports. Midway through the trial the government, through undercover men of its own, discovered Sinclair's method of shadowing justice. A mistrial was immediately declared...
...door of the Washington jail swung open hungrily last week to admit Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair. The U. S. courts had found him guilty of contempt of the Senate for refusing to answer questions in its 1924 Teapot Dome investigation. Now he was paying for his stubbornness by a 90-day sojourn in a "common jail" with pick pockets, wife-beaters, smalltime crooks...
...there is a possibility that he may pay a return visit to the same institution at a later date. He has been found guilty of contempt of court for putting Burns' detectives on jurors of his first Teapot Dome criminal conspiracy trial. Another six-month sentence hangs over him while the Supreme Court weighs that case...
...selected to skip in the choruses. Other St. Louisans are designing scenery, working backstage. Famed headliners-Mary Eaton, Leon Errol, Lulu McConnell-have already accepted contracts for the summer season. Like the city's successful Municipal Opera Company, the theatre will be in the open air, under a dome of boughs. Top price: $2.50. Life membership in the Society (entitling to 20% price reduction): $25. These frolics al fresco are counted on to stimulate theatre-unconscious St. Louisans so that next winter a program of more serious dramatics may be given with profit. Plays of John Galsworthy and Frederick...
...America of Colonial days. These colleges were nurtured in a sturdy and rugged individualism and a sound scholarship that is the pride of these institutions. But I must confess that I have somewhat the feeling that I would if they were to substitute a Gothic tower for the Capitol dome when I see the Gothic halls of Yale and Princeton and the invasion of Harvard by an artificial Quad system (and undoubtedly it must be in Gothic) while Yale is at the same time officially recommending this Quad plan...