Word: elk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eagle-eyed U. S. geographers.-ED. Pop Corn, Cashier, Governor Sirs: Your issue of Dec. 1 carries a TIMEworthy account of the recent election-accurate and to the point. Except perversely enough your illustration was the likeness of Frank ("Chief") Haucke and not that of Governor-elect Woodring. Also Elk City, Kans. rather than Neodesha, Kans. [about ten miles away] was the Woodring birthplace. His early activities with a pop corn stand attracted the attention of the Elk City banker which resulted in young Woodring's choosing that vocation [banking] at an early age. His present home is Neodesha...
...Department of the Interior as to the facts." The World replied: Of course not, because the man to whom such inquiry would surely be referred is Edward C. Finney, now the Department's solicitor, formerly (1921-29) Assistant Secretary, the man who saw nothing wrong when the Elk Hills and Teapot Dome scandals were in the making, the man most directly attacked by the Kelley charges. In 1928, Mr. Finney wrote the basic decision which Kelley protested as nullifying the "discovery" provision of the old mining laws and thereby validating countless paper claims of oil companies to shale lands...
Governor Arthur J. Weaver of Nebraska, Mason, Odd Fellow, Knight of Pythias, Woodman and Elk, and Mayor Richard Lee Metcalfe of Omaha, onetime editorial aide and good friend of the late arch-Protestant William Jennings Bryan, uttered the official welcome; Ak-Sar-Ben (Nebraska spelled backwards) coliseum provided a meeting place?when last week some 5,000 Roman Catholic archbishops, bishops, monsignori, priests and some 25,000 laymen assembled at Omaha for the first National Eucharistic Congress in 19 years. It was the greatest concourse of U. S. Catholics since the International Eucharistic Congress at Chicago four years...
...confirmation of Louis Dembitz Brandeis' nomination to the Supreme Court, U. S. entrance into the League of Nations, the Women's Suffrage and Child Labor amendments. However, he enjoyed small prominence as a statesman until he stumbled upon traces of the Teapot Dome and Elk Hills oil-lease scandals. Then unheeded, he dug and plugged at the evidence from October 1923 until February 1924, burst forth with his accusations. Surprised at finding his old friend Edward L. Doheny implicated, he nevertheless faced him across the inquisitors' table, prosecuted the investigation relentlessly. Successful in exposing that Republican graft...
...forests of Canada. The cast was recruited from the Ojibwas of upper Ontario, with old Chief Yellow Robe of the Sioux, who three years ago inducted Chief White Eagle Coolidge into that tribe, and who this spring died a city death of pneumonia (TIME, April 21), Princess Spotted Elk of the Penobscots, and young Chief Long Lance of the Blackfoot tribe, author, boxer, wrestler and onetime West Pointer, to play the leads. Burden and Chanler spent ten months on wilderness location to obtain a realism so striking that Paramount, which released The Silent Enemy last week, complained: "People will never...