Word: hillses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The gentle reader of your reported interview with me relative to my talk on the political and legal phases of the oil investigations before the Harvard Liberal Club, would certainly be stimulated to wonder whether facts had any importance in the scheme of life. He would be, as I am...
Three months after the inauguration, President Harding transferred the Navy oil reserves from the Navy Department back to the Department of the Interior.† Then, as later Senate investigations revealed, Secretary Fall received a mysterious "loan" of $100,000 on Nov. 3, 1921, from Edward L. Doheny, potent head of...
Edward L. Doheny, 70, is an opportunist and a pioneer. Born in Wisconsin he hunted gold in California. He found some, but at 36 he found himself nearly penniless in Los Angeles. So he discovered oil near that city, rose again and fell again financially. Then he got himself a...
The defense, headed by shrewd Lawyer Frank J. Hogan, contends: 1) That the Elk Hills leases were both a profitable and a patriotic move for the Government, because in return for them the Doheny interests built an oil reserve plant for the U. S. at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii;* 2) That...
The Flaming Forest (Antonio Moreno, Renee Adoree). Against a background of majestic mountains and lordly forests brooding over the hellish intrigues of red-skinned desperadoes, the Northwest Mounted are pictured in the first heroic adventure of their notable history. The immediate cause of their appearance: the sad plight of Actress...