Word: elks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ELK HILLS (Doheny...
Senator Borah of Idaho called on Mr. Hoover in Washington and invited him, in the name of Governor H. C. Baldridge and other Republican Idahosts, to go to their state next month and hunt wild animals. Senator Borah promised "cougar, elk, moose, mountain goats, deer, bears or eight delegates. It is really a wonderful country." Mr. Hoover declared he would gladly hunt in Idaho...
...ended the civil proceedings of the U. S. Navy Department against Oilman Edward L. Doheny to recover values and royalties on oil and gas sold by Mr. Doheny's companies from the Elk Hills, Calif., Naval oil reserves, which were improperly leased to the Doheny interests by onetime (1921- 23) Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall. Last week's final payments swelled the sum which the U. S. recovered from the Doheny companies, together with its oil lands, to a total of $24,237,341.05. The report of the receivership which has been managing Elk Hills since 1924 showed...
...last week the U. S. started yet another civil suit against Mr. Doheny, to break three leases he holds on strips of oil land adjacent to the Elk Hills reserve...
Grand Exalted Ruler Malley, Yale graduate (1902), onetime Massachusetts state senator, an Elk since 1904, said...