Word: downs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The conviction of Fall as a bribe-taker, the first conviction to be obtained by the U. S. on direct evidence of the naval oil scandals (1921-23), produced a strange courtroom scene. Defendant Fall, seriously ill with bronchial pneumonia, sat in a green Morris chair, wrapped in an automobile...
Lawyer Hogan, onetime Brooklyn urchin, now Washington's smartest, cockiest criminal attorney, had secured Oilman Doheny's acquittal on the conspiracy charge; had received, it was said, a million-dollar fee for his services. Now he was Fall's chief defender. His claims which the jury rejected...
The wheat market, to the Farm Board's large concern, has been on the down grade of late. In the Chicago pit last week prices for December delivery slid from $1.25 per bu. to $1.13, recovered somewhat, closed at $1.23 per bu. Last July the same wheat stood at...
The Democratic-Insurgent Republican coalition first held a special caucus-of-war at the headquarters of Field Marshal Simmons. They decided to reverse their strategy of last Spring limiting tariff fighting only to the Farm Lowlands. They consented to give the regular Republicans battle all along the tariff line, with...
Week End. Austin Parker, Saturday Evening Post writer, conceived this first offering of Bela Blau, Inc., prosperous and principled new producers (TIME, May 13). Among his characters he included a drunkard who, as played with strange understanding by Hugh O'Connell, is one of the season's great...