Word: hillses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Harding's favorite evening game was poker, but there came an evening when President Harding had to think about Oil instead of drawing to a straight flush. Sinclair and another big oilman, Edward L. Doheny from the Pacific Coast, an old friend of Fall's, were anxious...
After receiving the Elk Hills lease, Oilman Doheny loaned Fall $100,000 without security. Publisher McLean "went down the line" (i. e., acted as a blind) for this friendly transaction.
"Mrs. Franklin Alter Jr. and myself [Mr. Alter] would be more than delighted to have you and Mrs. Davis as our house guests during the period that you are in Cincinnati. We would deem it a high honor to house such distinguished and popular people. You, with your magnetic personality...
One is the river that slides down through a quiet country where the hills are piled up like velvet pillows, past the quick glittering chaos of Manhattan, into the quiet Atlantic. Up this river the Captain sailed, hoping to find the splendor of China and a western ocean beyond some...
Died. Mrs. Charlotte Smith Pickford, 55, mother of Cinemactors Mary, Lottie and Jack Pickford; in Beverly Hills, Calif.