Word: naval
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Back to the Navy Department the President gave the naval oil reserves, revoking the Executive order issued by President Harding under which Secretary of the Interior Fall negotiated the illegal leases with Mr. Doheny and Mr. Sinclair. Only the Teapot Dome reserve remains to be returned...
...Naval Science...
...first time, Oilman Harry F. Sinclair appeared before a court fortnight ago to answer criminal charges arising from his leasing of the Teapot Dome naval oil reserve. This was the result of U. S. Supreme Court's unanimous decision (TIME, Jan. 31) that witnesses who refused to answer proper and pertinent questions when summoned by Congress, may be punished for contempt. Mr. Sinclair had defied a Senate investigating committee in 1924. That was why he found himself in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. After a ten-day trial and acting under specific, simple instruction from Judge...
...affairs of state. He suddenly paid a visit to his father-in-law, King Ferdinand of Rumania. At the same time the French Mediterranean fleet concentrated off Rumania's chief port, Constanta, To excited correspondents it seemed that King Alexander might have asked for and received a French naval demonstration to remind Rumania not to fall in too closely with Premier Mussolini's plans...
...Latin Europeans viewed askance last week an invitation transmitted by the U. S. State Department to France and Italy suggesting that "observers" from those nations would be welcome at the projected Coolidge Three-Power naval disarmament parley (TIME, Feb. 21) of the U. S., Britain and Japan. Newspapers in Paris and Rome seemed predominantly against the sending of "observers" by their Governments, but Rome made no official reply last week...