Word: invalids
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last February, indeed, even the courts appeared to have finished with the Elk Hills half of the scandal. By a unanimous decision of the U. S. Supreme Court (Feb. 28, 1927) the Doheny lease on the Elk Hills naval oil reserve was declared invalid and the property was restored to the U. S. Government. This decision settled the Government's civil suit to recover the lands leased by Mr. Fall. Meanwhile, on Dec. 16, 1926, the Government's criminal prosecution of Messrs. Fall and Doheny had failed when a jury in the District of Columbia Supreme Court aquitted...
Last week, however, Justice William Hitz of the District of Columbia Supreme Court ruled that the bribery indictments were valid. Justice Hitz ruled that the Harding order transferring the Elk Hills reserve to the Department of the Interior "had the force of law until revoked or declared invalid." He said that "an official act need not be a lawful act to render the official liable but need only be official in form and done under the color of his office." Therefore the bribery indictments held good and Messrs. Fall and Doheny would have to stand trial under them...
...Majesty King Ferdinand, long invalid and often sick to the point of death, made a dramatic gesture on the station platform at Bucharest, as he entrained to pass a period of recuperation, last week, at his hunting castle at Scrobesti...
Closed Gates (Jane Novak, Johnny Harron). This should be a good lesson to erring youths and indiscriminate cinemagoers. It tells about the scion of a wealthy family who allowed himself to get into an automobile wreck with the wrong girl, thus precipitating a scandal that killed his invalid mother. Father banishes Son; grimly the gates close behind his homelife. War . . . shell shock... amnesia. The boy returns, having lost trace of his family, his past, his own name. The heroine marries him anyhow. One day he wanders into his mother's bedroom to weep on her pillow. Father sees...
...royal Danish palace of Amalienborg a choir of Cossacks sang last week from full hearts to a little, weazened, dry old lady who contrived with an effort to sit upright and queenly in an invalid's wheel chair. She is Princess Dagmar of Denmark, daughter of the late King Christian IX, more famed as the Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna of all the Russias, widow of the Tsar Alexander III, mother of the executed Tsar Nicholas II, sister of the assassinated King George of Greece, venerable aunt of the British King-Emperor George V, of Danish King Christian...