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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Salt Creek field was leased to other operators, not to Sinclair. Lessees extract oil and pay the U. S. royalties of oil or cash. Sinclair's contract was to buy royalty oil from the U. S. at certain prices, with an option to renew the contract if he found the prices profitable. The voiding of Sinclair's buying contract in no wise affected leases in the Salt Creek field. Sinclair's contract was voided because his option was, in effect, secretly obtained, i.e., not mentioned in Fall's advertisement for bids...
...Owen of Florida, daughter of the late Great Commoner. She has her father's face and something of his frame. Modern conditions required her to substitute practical thinking for the passionate oratory that might have been her inherited forte. Long before the Smith tariff declaration at Louisville, she found it necessary to declare for Protection, which her father fought so long. Florida has changed since the Commoner first invested in its real estate and conducted prayer meetings there. Northern business men and methods opened a new field for northern political ideas and attitudes. Ruth Bryan Owen had to adapt...
...Matthew J. Patterson, portly Vareman, State Legislator, boss of the 19th ward, who found himself jailed for five years, fined $7,500. "Extortion, bribery & conspiracy" rang dismally in his ears...
...police force. He compared the reports of new and old incumbents of the precincts. On the basis of later Grand Jury reports he suspended from office almost one half of the executive police officers-three out of five inspectors, 18 out of 43 captains. These men had been found "unfit to hold any position in the municipal government." Their bank accounts revealed "unexplained wealth" amounting...
...Freshman race run earlier in the afternoon, the Crimson harriers found no trouble in keeping the race in their own hands, capturing the first eight places, resulting in a 15 to 40 tally in their favor...