Word: falle
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Harding's favorite evening game was poker, but there came an evening when President Harding had to think about Oil instead of drawing to a straight flush. Sinclair and another big oilman, Edward L. Doheny from the Pacific Coast, an old friend of Fall's, were anxious for some leases on the naval oil reserves at Elk Hills, Calif., and the Teapot Dome in Natrona County, Wyo. To accommodate them, Secretary Fall and Edwin Denby, Secretary of the Navy, prepared an executive order, transferring these reserves from the Navy to the Department of the Interior. President Harding...
Soon after President Harding was inaugurated, Sinclair was a frequent visitor in Washington, D. C. He knew Edward Beale ("Ned") McLean, sportsman-publisher of the Washington Post, and Harry Micajah Daugherty, the U. S. Attorney-General. He cultivated Albert-Bacon Fall, whom he had known only casually as a Senator from New Mexico, but who now, in 1921, was Secretary of the Interior. Sinclair began to be invited to stay at the White House...
After receiving the Elk Hills lease, Oilman Doheny loaned Fall $100,000 without security. Publisher McLean "went down the line" (i. e., acted as a blind) for this friendly transaction...
...also announced that Harvard will remain in the Eastern Intercollegiate Debating League next year, of which it won the championship, this year. A debate with the Harvard Chinese debating team on some subject relevant to the East is being planned for next fall...
...establishment at Harvard in the fall of 1926 of the naval science unit was part of a great experiment, simultaneously engineered by the government at Yale, Georgia Tech and in a number of colleges on the Pacific Coast. It is yet too early for judgement of the experiment in the same definite terms which made ascertainable the success of the corresponding venture in military science. Marked, however, by the shaping of study to the pleasure as well as profit of the student, the nearing close of the second year of naval science at Harvard may be said to have given...