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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...committee found a letter from Alexander Hamilton in which he said that, to meet the provisions of this old law, he has sold all his bank stock and government bonds but held his corporate shares...
...Democrats could give the condition of the cotton planters as their reason for voting an unDemocratic subsidy, which is what the debenture plan amounts to. But Northern, city Democrats could give as their only reason a partisan desire to put President Hoover in a hole. As in 1924, they found themselves playing catspaw for the Progressive Republicans. New York's Copeland, for example, said he would vote for the debenture plan, but "hold his nose" while he did so. Shifter Nye. North Dakota's Nye (Progressive) had declared against the debenture plan. Last week, under threats of political...
...door of the Washington jail swung open hungrily last week to admit Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair. The U. S. courts had found him guilty of contempt of the Senate for refusing to answer questions in its 1924 Teapot Dome investigation. Now he was paying for his stubbornness by a 90-day sojourn in a "common jail" with pick pockets, wife-beaters, smalltime crooks...
...there is a possibility that he may pay a return visit to the same institution at a later date. He has been found guilty of contempt of court for putting Burns' detectives on jurors of his first Teapot Dome criminal conspiracy trial. Another six-month sentence hangs over him while the Supreme Court weighs that case...
...athletic relations. Harvard and Princeton debating teams have also come together on more than one occasion, and athletic events where the two colleges, along with others, have competed are numerous. The excuse for all these seemingly direct cases of intercourse between the two universities, officially separated, has always been found in the more than dual nature of the competitions. The golf matches have been part of a league schedule; crews have matched strokes in triangular regattas; polo teams have met in the race for intercollegiate honors...