Word: land
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gilbert painted 1) the "unseemly spectacle" of an Army general telling, in moments opportune and inopportune, "how he could sink the entire U. S. Navy with one hand" and 2) the "unseemly spectacle" of "conservatism and stupidity charged with the keeping of the walls of safety about our land...
Unexpectedly, the Special Federal Grand Jury in the District of Columbia indicted Senator Burton K. Wheeler of Montana for conspiracy to defraud the U. S. of oil and gas lands in his home state. The alleged fraud is of the most ancient and bewhiskered type , in the land-grabbing business: no one person is allowed to get a permit to prospect over more than 2,560 acres, so crooked prospectors use dummies. Allegedly, some 9,000 acres were so secured by one Gordon Campbell,- client of the Butte, Mont., law firm of Wheeler & Baldwin, allegedly with Mr. Wheeler...
...charging that, while Senator, he accepted a fee to represent his client before the Department of the Interior (TIME, May 26, June 2, THE CONGRESS). The new indictment for conspiracy reveals no new evidence. As far as the public has yet learned, Mr. Wheeler's connection with the land-grabbing is so tenuous as to be invisible to the naked eye. But then, full facts are not usually made public before the trial-in this case, two trials. Senator Wheeler, who drove Harry M. Daugherty from office, claims these conspiracy charges are "reprisals...
...Universal Manhood Suffrage Bill was passed by huge majorities in both Houses of the Imperial Japanese Diet. The Bill will be sent to the Prince Regent for the Royal Assent and promulgated by Imperial rescript which makes it the law of the land. Plans were being laid to declare Apr. 28 a national holiday in commemoration of the passage of the measure...
Last night's vote does not, however, mark a radical innovation in the policy of the club, but merely a reversion to the policy of pre-war days when undergraduate plays were produced exclusively. The first of these undergraduate plays was "The Promised Land," by Allan Davis '07, which was enacted in the fall of 1908. Among the more important subsequent productions were "The Night Riders" by E.C. Ranck '13, "Manacles" by H.K. Moderwell '12, and the "Scarecrow" by Peroy MacKaye '97, a production written during his undergraduate days and warmly praised by H.T. Parker '89 of the Boston Transcript...