Word: heard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Naval reserve oil leases, the Government got its first material satisfaction. Last week, the first of the suits instituted because of those disclosures was decided-decided not finally, but at least in the Government's favor. Judge McCormick of the Federal District Court in Los Angeles, who heard the argument in the case last October and November, read the decision...
...Raisuli, son of the desert, had captured Ion Perdicaris, U. S. citizen, son of a Greek who had been dwelling in Morocco for some 20 years. When the Sultan of Morocco heard Roosevelt's stentorian demand, he agreed to Raisuli's demand and Perdicaris was released...
Months ago, vague rumors of bickerings were heard, but not until last week was it reported that the brothers had quarreled. Wild rumors circulated in Berlin that a definite disruption of the complex Stinnes estate was in sight, but the facts did not bear out the fears...
...Utica, N. Y., one Mrs. Mae Kingsley Mullane sat up till 1:30 on a Saturday night, waited for her husband, then shot him dead with a revolver. In court, last week, she heard the judge arraign her for murder, was led to a cell where she asked for something to read. Said the Utica Observer-Dispatch: "One of the magazines she is reported to have requested is Time, a weekly magazine of current events...
...Italy and Spain attend his concerts. When asked by pressmen why he had never sung at the Metropolitan, the cork came out of his bottle. Said he: "Because they will not pay my price.* I can sing well. I know it. I won't pay to be heard here. By that, I mean that I will not give an agent 40% of my earnings just for an engagement at the Metropolitan." Philadelphia and Boston, however, are scheduled to hear him. They will pay his price...