Word: naval
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...contra bonos mores" was committed, two and a half years after the first indictments were made, two old men went on criminal trial in the District of Columbia Supreme Court last week. They are charged with a conspiracy to defraud the Government in the leasing of the Elk Hills Naval Oil Reserve in California. Everyone has seen their names and their pictures; they both have drooping, pale grey mustaches; they both look as harmless and as worn-out as 70-year-old, double-entry bookkeepers. Their romance has had its fling; their future remains an inglorious struggle...
...pounds. fOne of the last acts of the Wilson Administration was the putting of these lands under the control of the Secretary of the Navy. *According to Mr. Hogan, Japan was threatening to attack Hawaii in 1921, and hence the Doheny oil storage plant was a valuable item in naval defense. Last week, word came from Tokyo that Japanese statesmen were vexed at being made the "goats" of the Fall-Doheny defense...
...Washington, Admiral Edward W. Eberle, chief of naval operations, gave orders for Commander Bartlett to stand by and then, as the hours passed without any word from Lieutenant Bartlett, commanded 24 Navy vessels-a battleship, cruisers, destroyers, a gunboat, a tug, a storeship and the minesweepers-to drop all other duties, report to the Cincinnati and fan out over the Caribbean on a search immediately...
There will be present representatives of the Divisions of Military Science, Naval Science, Physics, Astronomy, Chemistry, Physical Education, and the Premedical Department...
...several departments which will be present at the tea are those of Military Science, Naval Science, Physics, Astronomy, Chemistry, Physical Education, and Premedical Science...