Word: orders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Doheny from the Pacific Coast, an old friend of Fall's, were anxious for some leases on the naval oil reserves at Elk Hills, Calif., and the Teapot Dome in Natrona County, Wyo. To accommodate them, Secretary Fall and Edwin Denby, Secretary of the Navy, prepared an executive order, transferring these reserves from the Navy to the Department of the Interior. President Harding was badly worried, but he signed the orders. Then Fall signed the leases. "Well, I guess there'll be hell to pay," said President Harding, "but these fellows seem to know what they are doing...
...desks of Virginia's House of Delegates blossomed with a small white pamphlet one morning lately before the members began arriving for their daily session. The Speaker glanced at the copy on his own desk, read for a moment in astonishment, delivered a peremptory order. Pages hustled up and down the aisles confiscating the leaflets, which were entitled...
...order of Pope Pius XI, all the Archbishops and Bishops of France joined with Cardinal Dubois, last week, in signing an ordinance which will keep all persons affiliated with L'Action Française excommunicated until they renounce their affiliation...
This extremely severe discipline was meted out by the Supreme Pontiff in an effort to stop the famed editors of L'Action Française, Mr. Leon Daudet and Charles Maurras, from trading upon the prestige of Catholicism in order to gain Royalist supporters. This they have done by spreading a perverted doctrine, namely that Catholicism-which has so often upheld a stumbling royal house-should at this date espouse the lost cause of the Most Catholic House of Bourbon...
...order that the Nanking Government should not "lose face" in China by making these promises, Minister MacMurray assured Nationalist Huang-Fu that the U. S. State Department is "willing to express regret" that it was necessary for a U. S. river gunboat to bombard Nanking during the troublous times...