Word: elk
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Davis is a Mason, Odd Fellow, Knight of Pythias, Elk, Moose...
...were to face before their return they would never, never have gone. They went. And soon the first ridge of old egg shells left by summer visitors to western Vermont met our gaze. Commander Fish, who is a scientist as well as a lecturer, a mountain climber and an Elk stopped to inspect these. Old Mumbley-Jumbley, one of the natives in the train, said that these shells were from local Baptists who each year made a pilgrimage to the spring about four feet above the first story...
...will probably be dropped. Not so, Mr. Fall-he remains in Washington, where he will soon go on criminal trial with Harry F. Sinclair because of the Teapot Dome oil leases. This trial will be dismally anticlimactic. For, how could Mr. Fall be a patriot at Elk Hills and a crook at Teapot Dome? Even the jurors were surprised, on hearing for the first time, that Mr. Fall had to face another criminal trial, that the Government had already won both its civil suits involving Messrs. Fall, Doheny, Sinclair...
...prevents it from being a trial court? How could Sinclair a private citizen, sell public lands and he arrested therefor." Why state that the courts refused to cancel the Teapot Dome leases when a reference to the reported decisions would show the contrary to be true? Why bring the Elk Hills Reservation and Pearl Harbor contracts before the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals when the subject-matter is within the jurisdiction of the Ninth Circuit? Why involve the late Attorney General in contempt of court when newspapers a few months old show that the charge was one of conspiracy...
...defense, headed by shrewd Lawyer Frank J. Hogan, contends: 1) That the Elk Hills leases were both a profitable and a patriotic move for the Government, because in return for them the Doheny interests built an oil reserve plant for the U. S. at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii;* 2) That the entire transaction was urged and approved by onetime (1921-24) Secretary of the Navy Edwin Denby; 3) That Secretary Fall had only wanted to serve in President Harding's Cabinet for one year as "the capstone of his public career," and that he stayed a second year because...