Word: edwin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Edwin Franko Goldman (Goldman's Band...
...Inquisitor Nye announced that his secretary, who was secretary to the late Senator Edwin F. Ladd of North Dakota, Senator Nye's predecessor as chairman of the investigating committee, had told him how, when the Oil Scandal had just broken four years ago, Will H. Hays asked Senator Ladd to meet him at the White House and then, during a taxi ride, tried to persuade him to "call off" the inquiry. Senator Ladd refused...
...straight flush. Sinclair and another big oilman, Edward L. Doheny from the Pacific Coast, an old friend of Fall's, were anxious for some leases on the naval oil reserves at Elk Hills, Calif., and the Teapot Dome in Natrona County, Wyo. To accommodate them, Secretary Fall and Edwin Denby, Secretary of the Navy, prepared an executive order, transferring these reserves from the Navy to the Department of the Interior. President Harding was badly worried, but he signed the orders. Then Fall signed the leases. "Well, I guess there'll be hell to pay," said President Harding...
...funerals?by-products of life on $1,200 per year. The House Civil Service Committee, to which they protestified was considering, among other pay raises the establishment of $1,500 as a minimum wage for any Federal fulltime job This increase the marchers favored. But one man, Clerk Edwin Evans of the General Accounting Office, cried out: "I am opposed . . . though I stand alone among the 60,000 Government workers in Washington." His points were that the "Welch bill, containing the $300 minimum increase, would benefit the least needy workers the most; that it would keep young married women...
...departure of Sinclair's lawyers for El Paso to take Fall's deposition for the defense. The gist of the Fall statement was expected to be the old story that it was Edwin Denby, the Harding Navy Secretary and not Fall who persuaded President Harding to transfer Teapot Dome from the Navy to the Interior Department, a transfer to which Fall says he assented "reluctantly and only at the instance of the President...