Word: prospective
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Criminal action against those involved in the naval reserve oil scandals has long been in prospect. Some time ago the Government secured indictments for bribery and conspiracy against Albert B. Fall and the Edward L. Dohenys, Sr. and Jr. These indictments had been quashed by Chief Justice McCoy of the District of Columbia Supreme Court, on the grounds that an officer of the Department of Justice had been improperly present in the Grand Jury room. Last week the District of Columbia Court of Appeals overruled Chief Justice McCoy. The indictments stand. The Government can go on with its case against...
...attend, however. The reason for the change of front by the regulars was that they deem it wiser now to be conciliatory. Next year one-third of the Senate comes up for reelection. They are senators who were elected in 1920, a Republican landslide year. There is no prospect of electing Republican Senators in any states where Republicans were not elected in 1920. Faced with the likelihood of losing several seats, the regular Republicans are anxious to preserve as many of their number as possible-and one of these is Senator Lenroot of Wisconsin. Lenroot is a regular...
...prospect of the Speaker of the Legislature summoning an impeachment session, even that project was damped. By a legal anomaly, such a session would not have power to appropriate money for its own expenses. Speaker Lee Satterwhite announced that he has promises of private citizens to contribute $300,000 for the expenses of the session, and Jim Ferguson turned on him with the cry of "Slush fund!" In addition it was realized that, even if the state House of Representatives impeached the Governess, Jim Ferguson has probably sufficient strength in the Senate to prevent her being removed from office. Then...
...squash courts than there are at any other university in the country, and expects to provide more. For nearly three years I have been trying to get permission from the Corporation to build a swimming pool, and I am happy to say that there now seems to be some prospect of immediate action on this proposal. I have presented to the Corporation a plan by which I thought a new gymnasium might become possible in the near future. In addition we now operate more tennis courts than any other two universities in the country. I have been doing my best...
...went back to law and became special counsel to the Pullman Co. In 1889 President Harrison sent him to London as Ambassador. His four years in London were his last in public office. He was asked to run for Senator (in Illinois), for President, but declined to entertain the prospect. Instead he went back to the Pullman Co., and on the death of George W. Pullman in 1897, became its President. It was during this period that he visited the Buffalo Exposition just as President McKinley was shot. He served as President of the Pullman Co. until...