Word: formalities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...train returning from a visit to the Fall ranch in New Mexico. It was nine hours after the legal time was up when Oilman Sinclair sent in his bid, by telegram from Pratt, Kan. Simultaneously, Fall wired Assistant Secretary of the Interior Edward Clingan Finney not to be too formal about the bids. The belated Sinclair bid was accordingly admitted. When Fall returned to Washington he threw out twelve other bids and awarded the contract to Sinclair. It was a contract to extract oil from U. S. property on a royalty basis. In Fall's advertisement for bids nothing...
...Piggery (TIME. Oct. 22). where fat, nuzzling porkers are stuffed with choicest swill for prize winning purposes. From a source close to Mr. Gilbert it was reported that the grave problems in hand were not seriously attacked until he and Chancellor Churchill went up to London for a formal conference with Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin...
Prohibition was also the aperitif at the Boston clinical congress of the American College of Surgeons last week. Franklin N. Martin of Chicago, president of the College, interrupted his formal inaugural talk to say: "More than two-thirds of our people morally and spiritually favor the 18th Amendment to the Constitution. In spite of the injudicious administration, which has resulted in an orgy of lawbreaking, of self-indulgence and ridicule on the part of the other one-third of our citizens, the foundation has been laid for a demonstration of race betterment and extension of life that will astonish...
Membership blanks placed in upperclass as well as Freshmen envelopes would give all men ample opportunity to join the Union. All others cannot but be annoyed at the necessity of filling a formal resignation or, in default of that, of accepting a membership they do not desire...
...bulls. His slightest intimations have lifted stocks nearly 40 points. His name, linked with the Du Pont interests, has been synonymous with a mysterious but potent pool operating in market leaders. Amazing, almost traitorous, appeared this statement, released on the very day the 5,400 bankers were preparing their formal edict...