Word: rear
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When Mgr. Hayes was motoring up to the Pincian gardens to be snapped by the picture men he was so closely followed by the car containing a load of photographers that an accident occurred. The rear car hit Mgr. Hayes' car, smashing the gasoline tank. This caused a half hour's delay, and gave the photographers ample opportunity...
...Fall and Harry F. Sinclair "did combine, conspire and confederate" to defraud the Govern-ment in making it; 5) because Edwin Denby, the then Secretary of the Navy, "exercised no discretion," but signed the lease as a matter of form. The Court granted the temporary injunction. Joseph Strauss (Rear Admiral) and Albert E. Wates (Vice President of the Sinclair Consolidated Oil Companies) were appointed receivers. Harry F. Sinclair declared: "It is a great relief that the Teapot Dome controversy has at last been transferred to a court of justice...
...Federal District Court at Los Angeles, the special counsel for the Government obtained a temporary injunction on the Doheny companies to prevent them from operating their leases. The charges made were much the same as those of the Teapot Dome complaint. Rear Admiral Harry H. Rousseau and J. Crampton Anderson, President of the Pan-American Petroleum Co., were named joint receivers. In order to protect the Government's naval and oil interests as well as the interests of the lessee, the receivers were empowered to carry out the existing contracts, and to drill additional wells, if necessary to protect...
...front of the pedestal of fine-hammered granite are inscribed the words "John Harvard, Founder, 1638." The seal on the southern face is that of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, England, from which John Harvard was graduated. On the northern face is the seal of Harvard College, and on the rear face the words, "Given by Samuel James Bridge, June...
...even in these days people still risk pennies in subway slot machines where the possible gain is nothing and the probable loss therefore, comparatively large. The love of slot machines, however, may arise from another source. There have been rumors of people who ride up and down in the rear elevator of Widener Library whenever they go to the Reading Room merely for the animal satisfaction of pressing the buttons. This, at least, entails no pecuniary, loss--and better still, preserves one's morals intact. After all, the moral effect of gambling is very little understood. It is not that...