Word: land
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...like some of the ways of some people who came from his State - the way they walked into my office, at least." Wheeler. The special committee, headed by Senator Borah, which had been investigating the charge that Senator Wheeler had accepted money for prosecuted claims before the Land Office, closed its hearings and returned, 4 to 1, a report of "Not Guilty." Mr. Wheeler has been under indictment in Montana for this offense. Evidence was adduced before the committee to show that the Republican National Committee had joined with the Department of Justice in an attempt to bring the charge...
...play is an assault on "Tin Pan Alley" and the jazz factories. Franz Henkel (Fields) is an old German composer who showed considerable promise in his youth by writing a Dresden Sonata. A university brawl, in which he inadvertently shoots another student, has forced him to flee his native land; impecuniosity compels him to do hack work in the popular music concern of Al Tyler (Donald Gallagher). Here he furnishes orchestrations and harmonies for the musically illiterate composers of song hits and barely succeeds in supporting an exceedingly beautiful daughter (Betty Weston). To his horror he finds his boss putting...
...Washington, Senator Royal S. Copeland, onetime chief health officer for New York City, introduced a bill to provide for a Bureau of Medical Research in the Department of the Interior. It includes an elaborate program for the purchase of 100 acres of land near Washington and a $1,000,000 research plant...
Trinity Church (Broadway and Wall St., Manhattan) stands on one of the most valuable plots of land in the U. S. Yet a clever group of swindlers is reported to have made a fortune out of questioning the validity of Trinity's title to the land it occupies...
...Government can make is being made to find these gallant men." Two U. S. Coast Guard cutters ploughed the gale-lashed waters of the North Pacific day and night. At every bay and inlet a small boat was put off and a search was made of the adjoining land. At night the two ships' glaring searchlights swept the desolate coast...