Word: fall
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sentence been for a year-and-a-day Fall would have been eligible for parole after four months in jail. Sentences of one year or less are not parolable...
Free on $5,000 bond and back in his hotel suite, Fall issued a 3,000-word statement to the public. Said he: "I ask the American people not to believe me guilty of the damnable crime [bribery] of which I am innocent." He admitted only "two grave errors:" 1) "Borrowing" $100,000 from Doheny; 2) Attempting to hide its source from the Senate investigating committee "by an untruth...
Bedclothes Story. Last week Senator Bronson Cutting of New Mexico exploded the widely credited story of Fall's visit, as a Senator in 1919, to the White House bedside of Woodrow Wilson (TIME, Oct. 21). Gilbert Monell Hitchcock of Nebraska was another Senator who accompanied Fall to determine President Wilson's condition. Last week he assured Senator Cutting that Fall did not, as history has said, rudely snatch the bedclothes off the ill President to inspect him. Said Mr. Hitchcock: "Fall, who supposed President Wilson's right arm was paralyzed, was amazed when the President held...
...Soon he faced a threatened strike of one-third of a million French coal miners. Diving into the fray he managed in one week to win both operators and employes to his plan of settlement?which involved financial sacrifices by both. When the present cabinet crisis occurred with the fall of the government of Aristide Briand, the tenacious Dauphin was clinging to his Ministery of Interior (bestowed by Poincaré a year ago), a key post since the incumbent controls the local government and the police of France...
...Dictator in several newspaper articles calling upon him either to suppress Poland's parliamentary institutions entirely or permit the Sejm to reconvene. At last Pilsudski's gruff consent was given. Deputies scurried up to Warsaw. Then last week, half an hour before Speaker Daszynski's gavel was due to fall, a rumor spread that the National Democratic and Socialist Deputies were going to rush through a vote of no-confidence in the Government...