Word: government
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Owen J. Roberts and Atlee Pomerene, special counsel for the Government, took train from the Capital and reached Cheyenne. Harry F. Sinclair and his lawyers also went west. In the Federal District Court of Cheyenne, Messrs. Roberts and Pomerene asked a temporary injunction to restrain the Mammoth Oil Co. from drilling or operating wells on Teapot Dome. They alleged that the lease to the Mammoth Co. was illegal, 1) because it rested on an in-valid Executive Order of President Harding transferring control of the naval oil reserve to the Department of the Interior; 2) because it was executed without...
There are times when so vague and negative an announcement is news, and this is one of them, for the relations of the Vatican to Mussolini's Govern-ment have been secret and increasingly friendly, and Mussolini's friends have endeavored to capitalize the fact into a fait accompli which would end the 50-year-old scandal of Rome...
Between 50,000 and 100,000 claims (totaling $100,000,000) are being prepared against the Mexican govern-ment by American citizens and corporations. Virtually every petroleum company operating in Mexico, every copper, gold and silver mining company, individuals (including ranch owners), business interests, and relatives of persons injured and killed in the course of the last decade of revolution, spoilation and expropriation, are filling in the appropriate blanks distributed by the U. S. State Department. Thus Mexico will soon face a $100,000,000 bill...
...Junior Municipality has been tried in Ithaca and has proved successful. Its plan is to give boys, between the ages of 16 and 21, responsibility by allowing them to govern themselves. For each customary municipal office, there is a corresponding one in the Junior Municipality...
...forget that British Govern-ment contract. It's all true. Murphy's libel suit is a four-flushing bluff. He knows it's all true. Remember that when you go to the polls...