Word: mars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President renominated Mr. Warren and announced that, if the Senate did not confirm him, he would be offered a temporary appointment without the Senate's consent (TiME, Mar...
...Senate rejected Mr. Warren again, 46 to 39 (TIME, Mar...
...last time he had been in Washington was on Mar. 4 when "J. G. Sargent, Ludlow, Vt." registered at the Willard. He had come down on the train with Colonel John Coolidge and his party; and the story is that he had treated the whole party to railroad and Pullman tickets. Although he dined at the White House as the guest of the President, he is said to have preferred to have his meals in the basement of the White House with the Secret Service men with whom he had made friends the summer before at Plymouth. He kept...
...part, the cartoonist is right. But he should not have drawn Mr. Borah lying on his belly. Mr. Borah, when the Charles B. Warren nomination was before the Senate (TIME, Mar. 2), walked quite openly to the side of the Insurgents to oppose the Administration nominee. He boldly led the attack and, but for him, Mr. Warren would probably have been confirmed-his single vote would have been enough to do it at one time. But he encouraged a number of Republicans to side against the nomination; his example woke the Democrats to united opposition that might not have existed...
...Cheyenne, the Government's civil suit to cancel the lease of the Teapot Dome Naval Oil Reserve to Harry F. Sinclair (TIME, Mar. 23) wound to an ineffectual close. The Government charged conspiracy and attempted to connect up the lease with payment of alleged bribes to ex-Secretary of the Interior Fall. A payment of $25,000 in Liberty Bonds in 1923. after Mr. Fall had resigned from office and was in Mr. Sinclair's employ, was established. But the defense argued that this was a legitimate loan and had nothing to do with the Teapot Lease...