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...committing the first felony ever proved on a member of a U. S. President's Cabinet. Shortly after Mr. Fall was sentenced to a year in prison and a $100,000 fine-the amount of the bribe he took from Oilman Edward Laurence Doheny for arranging the Elk Hills oil lease in 1922 while serving as Secretary of the Interior-Mrs. Fall posed and spoke for Fox Movietone News. The film contained "news" which had escaped or been rejected by the newspapers. Mrs. Fall declared: "The jury . . . stood on the second ballot nine for acquittal, two for conviction...
...will carry first to the District of Columbia Court of Appeals and then on to the same U. S. Supreme Court which in 1926 branded him "a faithless public officer'' on the same evidence when in a civil suit it voided the Doheny-Fall lease for the Elk Hills naval oil reserve...
...West, had been friends for 43 years. Doheny had approached Fall, as Secretary of the Interior, for an oil lease. At the peak of negotiations-Nov. 30, 1921-he had sent Fall $100,000 in cash by his son. Four months later Doheny's oil company had the Elk Hills lease from which it expected to make $100,000,000. Two years ago a jury tried Fall and Doheny on practically the same evidence for conspiracy to defraud the U. S. That jury acquitted them. This time the jury had to judge, independent of Doheny, Fall's intent...
...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 $100,000 cash was a friendly loan for which Doheny held a torn note. Doheny had reluctantly taken the Elk Hills lease as the result of a Japanese war scare in 1921 and as an act of patriotism for national security. (The Navy, through Secretary Charles Francis Adams, refused to submit to the court confidential documents which might or might not support this war scare.) The whole Government from President Harding...
Menagerie. "Throughout my four terms in Albany one of the attractions of the Executive Mansion was animals. In my first term I confined the menagerie to ponies, dogs, birds . . . later I had at various times raccoons, bears, elk. deer, monkeys, rabbits, pheasants, a red fox, barn owls, and for awhile a goat named Heliotrope...