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...tells a cheerless story of a thirty-dollar-a-week couple. The husband wanted to be an Elk and the wife a movie actress-estimable ambitions in themselves possibly, but scarcely the be-all and the end-all of this life. There appears on their tiny horizon a smooth and sinister young man who will get the husband into the Elks and the wife into the movies. By the third act he has all the former's money and the latter's honor. The hapless two awake to hurl recriminations back and forth and to make...
...University as a memorial by Mrs. Ray Tompkins to her deceased husband, one of Yale's greatest-early athletes and captain of the 1884 football team. Formerly, the tract was the property of John Milton Greist, who devoted it for more than two decades as a preserve for deer, elk, and other big game...
...used for field studies and instruction by the departments of botany, zoology and forestry. For a long time this extensive tract of forest has been under excellent protection and care. Around a portion of it is still found the high woven wire fence which confined the deer and elk when its former owner, Mr. Griest of New Haven, used the land as a deer park...
Last week J. K. Rpbison completed four years' service as Chief of the Bureau of Naval Engineering. In that post he had approved the Teapot Dome and Elk Hills oil leases. With his quitting the post of Chief of the Bureau of Engineering, he lost his temporary rank of Rear Admiral and reverted to his permanent rank of Captain. His application to retire with his temporary rank was denied by the President. He can never achieve the rank of Rear Admiral now, since he will be 55 in a few weeks and according to rule no one is given...
...Francisco Edward L. Doheny and his legal staff opened their appeal from the decision of Federal Judge Paul J. McCormick last June voiding the Elk Hills oil reserve lease (TIME, June...