Word: lands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bill itself was trifling: the Okonogan Indians of Washington sought legislative permission to sue the U. S. in the Court of Claims on a land dispute. Congress granted the permission, but President Coolidge withheld consent. The Indians were last week asking the Supreme Court to validate their permission by denying the President the power to kill a bill by pocketing it, except after a final adjournment of the Congress-that is, an adjournment on a March 4, after a second session...
...when, for a satisfactory compensation, it signed up Maj. Gen. Robert Lee Bullard, commander of the A. E. F.'s second army, as an endorser of Lucky Strike cigarets. The General is retired from the Army but in the advertisement which went the length and breadth of the land in newspapers and magazines he appeared in full military regalia, very stern, very distinguished, declaring: "An Army Man Must Keep...
Secretary of the Interior Wilbur promptly picked a committee of three to sift outstanding drilling permits. They were: Commissioner of the General Land Office William Spry, Director of the Geological Survey George Otis Smith, Interior Department Solicitor Edward C. Finney. They will revoke permits which have lapsed or under which specified development has not occurred...
...some future date, it is the intention of the University to clean out the Plympton Street region altogether and to erect college buildings there, but this involves taking the land out of reach of the city tax assessors, and other problems that will make such a project impractical for many years...
Harvard owns all the land abutting on Colonial Way, which, moreover, is but rarely used and not at all necessary. The principal complaints in regard to its closure were based on a possible depreciation in property value which might take place if a House were built shutting off neighboring residences from their outlook over the Charles. One real estate expert foresaw a possible loss of as high as 60 percent...