Word: make
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...approached Fall, as Secretary of the Interior, for an oil lease. At the peak of negotiations-Nov. 30, 1921-he had sent Fall $100,000 in cash by his son. Four months later Doheny's oil company had the Elk Hills lease from which it expected to make $100,000,000. Two years ago a jury tried Fall and Doheny on practically the same evidence for conspiracy to defraud the U. S. That jury acquitted them. This time the jury had to judge, independent of Doheny, Fall's intent in receiving this cash. It found his intent criminal...
...married theatrical director Harrison Grey Fiske who still stages her productions. Eight years ago she gave up tragic, wearing parts, but later rallied to play Ibsen's Ghosts. She wears no real furs or feathers, eats no flesh. In 1925 she said: "Society is so organized as to make it seem necessary for thousands of shouting, cursing men to stand knee-deep in blood, dealing ferocious blows right and left upon millions of shrieking animals in order that we may be fed. . . . The steel trap has no place in anything even remotely describing itself as civilization and to abolish...
...babies, his dashing career as an Italian colonel. She met him first in Rome when she was only eleven, while spike-helmeted Germans were trampling her own Brussels. Last week he came with a suite of 31 Italian nobles to seek her hand. Only a bullet was needed to make completely romantic the engagement, officially proclaimed at Brussels, of Marie Jose, third child and only daughter of Belgium's beloved King Albert, and the Prince of Piedmont, Umberto, Crown Prince of Italy...
...football games. He lays the fault for this restriction of interest squarely upon the colleges themselves. In the past, athletics and endowment drives have been the only connections by which the colleges have attempted to keep in touch with their alumni. In the future, be predicts, the colleges will make a definite attempt to keep up academic relations with their graduates. giving them the opportunity to continue their college work, and to keep in touch with the educational world...
...Dartmouth, and alumni short term sessions as at Lafayette, and in every case the response by the alumni to such efforts on the part of the college has shown that alumni education is a field which is pregnant with possibilities, but which has been far too long neglected. To make such a scheme of adult education an assured success involves changing the view, that the college has fulfilled its purpose in the four brief years of academic life...