Word: falle
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Government had succeeded in taking from him his U. S. passport, leaving Mr. Blackmer in the embarrassing predicament of a "person whose papers are not in order." Mr. Blackmer is urgently wanted in the U. S. as a witness in the coming (October) trial of Albert B. Fall, onetime (1921-23) Secretary of the Interior, and Harry F. Sinclair, oil man, for conspiracy in the famed Teapot Dome scandal. Last May Mr. Blackmer refused to honor a subpoena to return and testify; the passport revocation followed, presumably with the intention of preventing Mr. Blackmer from leaving France for even more...
Should Mr. Blackmer's stay in France be prolonged beyond the date of the Fall-Sinclair trial, set to open in the District of Columbia Supreme Court on Oct. 17, his absence may cost him $100,000. For in 1925 Senator Thomas J. Walsh of Montana, head of the Senatorial investigating committee which had discovered that it was not oil wells that truth lay at the bottom of, secured the passage of a law empowering the Senate committee to summon witnesses from abroad. Furthermore, the law provided that a person refusing to honor such summons be judged guilty...
...Canadian oil company 33,333,000 barrels of oil. The Canadian company had bought this oil from the Mexia (oil) companies of Texas. It was claimed that the Canadian company, which made some millions of dollars on the transaction, was a "shadow" or "dummy," concern, and that Albert B. Fall received $230,000 in Liberty Bonds as his share of the profits. When the Teapot Dome case first came up before a Federal court in Cheyenne (TIME, March 23, 1925), Mr. Blackmer, along with one James E. O'Neil, president of the Prairie Oil Co., left for France...
...that onetime (1921-26) Governor-General Baron Byng of Canada has refused to pay a so-called "peerage patent fee" demanded by the Treasury. Theoretically this sum, amounting to several hundred pounds, is due as payment for inserting in the Official Gazette a paragraph to the effect that, last fall, Baron Byng was elevated to the style of Viscount. Actually, of course, the "fee" is a time-honored bit of British graft. How did Lord Byng explain his nonpayment...
...colony at Paris like nothing better than to hear "native" U. S. citizens belittled; but had shrewd Paul Poiret no more in mind than to vent a trifle of honest spleen? He had. He made mention, at last, of an intention to tour the U. S. next fall, lecturing to women's clubs on how a U. S. woman may divine whether the imported gown of her choice...