Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...accounting of the oil which had been taken from Teapot Dome.+ The company was enjoined from trespassing further on Government property. Judge Kenyon's decision cut straight to the point of the fraud: "There is no corruption in this case as to any officers of the Government except Albert B. Fall. It has been the theory of the Government that onetime Secretary Fall received from Harry F. Sinclair, organizer and owner of the Mammoth Co., a pecuniary consideration which influenced him to grant the company a lease for Teapot Dome...
...their roulette wheels. The Bad Lands have their king, "Scarface Al" Caponi, alias "Al-phonzo Brown," who has been on the throne since 1922. Never since the days of "Big Jim" Colosimo (the man with the diamond complex) has the underworld had so potent an organizer. "Scarface Al," except for the old razor gash on one side of his face, might easily be mistaken for a fat, prosperous baker. King Caponi does not bake. With his brothers, Ralph and James, he keeps the beer route flowing and the political machinery of Cicero running. At the last election 20 workers...
...undergraduate daily) president, assistant professor in the History Department. Mr. Whitney was shown to have all the requisite negative virtues, to be "on terms of intimacy with all recent graduates who are likely to be able to give money ... on some sort of terms with nearly every recent graduate, except perhaps purely domestic Jews and Irish." Mr. Whitney was pictured, in a study made illustrious by the late Barrett Wendell, as an "electric person" to whom all manner of Harvard officials, from the President down, enter for weighty conference or valued advice. Of Mr. Whitney the pamphleteer cried: "What meteoric...
...country. Dues in all the 92 associated Leagues were, by motion at the national conference last spring at Nashville, Tenn., raised from 50c to $1 per girl to pay for the new club, which will be open for tea, bridge, reading and information from 10 to 5:30 daily except Saturdays and Sundays. 'We are planning,' said I, 'to have exhibitions of members' work in drawing, sculpture, painting. . . . We have now arrived at a point in our development where national cohesiveness must not only be maintained but developed...
...statement made last night by Coach Mitchell of the University baseball team when interviewed concerning his views on the Series. "Today's game was an unfortunate setback, but I still have my faith pinned on the Cards. Had Pennock lost yesterday, it would have all been over except the shouting. I expect Alexander to come through with another brilliant victory...