Word: held
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...attorney, had secured Oilman Doheny's acquittal on the conspiracy charge; had received, it was said, a million-dollar fee for his services. Now he was Fall's chief defender. His claims which the jury rejected: The $100,000 cash was a friendly loan for which Doheny held a torn note. Doheny had reluctantly taken the Elk Hills lease as the result of a Japanese war scare in 1921 and as an act of patriotism for national security. (The Navy, through Secretary Charles Francis Adams, refused to submit to the court confidential documents which might or might...
...Democratic-Insurgent Republican coalition first held a special caucus-of-war at the headquarters of Field Marshal Simmons. They decided to reverse their strategy of last Spring limiting tariff fighting only to the Farm Lowlands. They consented to give the regular Republicans battle all along the tariff line, with a view to beating down with their rifle butts all industrial rates that dared pop their heads above the present trench level...
...Epstein Dispensary and Social Hall. Lately Mr. Epstein combined his hobby and his philanthropy. Last fortnight the University of Chicago announced receipt from him of $1,000,000 for an art center where esthetic history and theory will be studied and taught, pundits will lecture, exhibitions will be held. The building will stand near the University's resplendent new chapel, upon the plans for which a great U. S. artist-the late Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue-was working at the time of his death (TIME, April...
...Future. Promising full expenses to about 200 delegates, the A.B.A. has invited the Bar Associations of Great Britain and France to attend its next meeting, which will be held at a city to be selected later by the executive committee...
Springfield College won the second Annual intercollegiate Cross Country Run held yesterday afternoon on the four and a half mile course along Charles River. The winners were able to bunch their runners so that from a group of eight runners, seven were in the first ten, and the eighth placed eleventh. This grouping made the Springfield score but 30 points, as the points of the first five men of finish were the only ones to count in the team's score. Northeastern University came in second with 48 points; Holy Cross third with 101 points; Harvard fourth with...