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...Public Lands Committee of the Senate was trying, last year, to find out what became, in 1921, of the profits of the Continental Trading Co. (side-spout of the Teapot Dome oil mess), it asked Col. Robert W. Stewart, chief of the Standard Oil Co. of Indiana and stout friend of Oilman Sinclair, if he had "received" any of the Continental profits. "No," answered Oilman Stewart. He declined to say if he knew anyone who did "receive" the profits. For his silence the Senate indicted Col. Stewart for contempt. Also having learned that one-fourth of the Continental profits...
Revelations of intimacy between Philadelphia's underworld and its police force (TIME, Oct. 8) seemed to demand some official decapitations. Several police officers, obviously guilty, were removed, disgraced. Senator-suspect Vare, boss of the city, announced that the Director of Public Safety, Harry C. Davis, his friend for 40 years, was above it all, irreproachable. The grand jury hoped and trusted this was so, but continued its inquiry. Things were looking up for Director Davis. Nevertheless, one day last week, Mayor Harry Arista Mackey bustled into the mayoral office and, without pausing to remove his overcoat, dictated a letter...
Sued for Divorce. Clare A. Briggs, famed Manhattan cartoonist (When, a Feller Needs a Friend, Skin-nay, Mr. & Mrs.); by Mrs. Ruth Owen Briggs of New Rochelle...
...shooting followed several weeks of reciprocal hazing by students of Birmingham-Southern College and Howard College,* football rivals. The Howard killer was working in a drugstore when in strode his friend from Birmingham-Southern with threats of head-shaving. Nervous, terrified, the student drug clerk picked up a revolver, fired. Days later the drug clerk fainted at his friend's funeral, which was attended by students of both colleges prior to their big football game. Howard...
...Shakespeare at the "Boudoir Theatre." By way of advertisement, he filled his splendid barouche-three white horses pulling on the right, three black horses on the left-with buxom wasp-waisted actresses in picture hats. But his mistress refused to. believe it mere advertisement, cuckolded him with his best friend-a double-dealing popinjay-and broke his heart. The popinjay, balked in blackmailing Jubilee Jim, shot him dead. Tammany-Boss Tweed and Jay Gould sorrowed sincerely; the masses, damp-eyed, mourned vociferously...