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...ineffectual close. The Government charged conspiracy and attempted to connect up the lease with payment of alleged bribes to ex-Secretary of the Interior Fall. A payment of $25,000 in Liberty Bonds in 1923. after Mr. Fall had resigned from office and was in Mr. Sinclair's employ, was established. But the defense argued that this was a legitimate loan and had nothing to do with the Teapot Lease. The main part of the Government's case rested on a charge that certain Liberty Bonds- several hundred thousand dollars' worth-which were bought with the profits...
...their zeal to enforce the law, prohibition agents have already given severe jolts to the constitutional freedom from unwarranted search. Mr. Buckner's decision to employ the injunction, however praiseworthy as a showing of efficiency, comes between the people and their right to trial by jury
...contest will close on August 7, when reading of the plays will stop. Mr. Raftery of the Telegraph says: "It should be something for the playwright to know that his or her play will be at least read and appraised. Many successful producers do not even employ a play reader. Their desks (many of them) are piled with dust-covered manuscripts that have never been read." It is the purpose of the contest to form a clearing house for neglected scripts...
...bright future for college men who enter them. This has been especially true since the war, when the chemical side of all industries received much impetus. Such enormous industries as oil, electrical appliances, steel, dye, textile, meat packing, and others find it necessary to maintain great laboratories and to employ chemists. The chemical and drug industries themselves employ chemists in even greater numbers...
Walter Prichard Eaton, it is said, may be summoned to Harvard to staunch the wound made by Yale in its drama department. The hurt university could do few wiser things than to employ Mr. Eaton to succeed Professor Baker as a tutor to the dramatists. As a critic he has many of the better attributes a knowledge of life and the theatre, a sense of humor, a touch of sentiment concerning the plays and players and an influential way of writing and talking. He is not too proud to have a boyish affection for what he calls the "glamour...