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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Albert Bacon Fall, 65, had the more startling career and faces the more dismal future. From a cattle prospector he rose to be Secretary of the Interior under President Harding. Born in Kentucky, he spent most of his youth in the saddle in the territory of New Mexico. Then he plunged into law and politics. Reward came. He was elected the first U. S. Senator from New Mexico. Senator Fall, weighing 180 pounds,* wearing a wide-brimmed hat of the southwest, was popular in a frontierish sort of way. Most important was his friendship with that unimpressive, loyal group...
Edward L. Doheny, 70, is an opportunist and a pioneer. Born in Wisconsin he hunted gold in California. He found some, but at 36 he found himself nearly penniless in Los Angeles. So he discovered oil near that city, rose again and fell again financially. Then he got himself a horse and set out to explore Mexico. Rich oil fields met his eye; he organized the Mexican Petroleum Co. Now, he has accumulated a fortune of some $100,000,000. Perhaps, he regards his Elk Hills leases as Doheny was a bribe, or at least just another successful...
...guilt of the Central Powers" was the question before the house in the Living Room of the Union. Speaking in defense of this motion, Professor Barnes presented an unanswerable case, and so carried his audience along that at the close of his speech C. P. Wright 1G rose and moved that there be no vote on the question. This motion was seconded, but defeated by 75 to 50, and the subsequent poll supported Professor Barnes...
Justice McKenna usually armed himself on the bench with a magnificent, reticent dignity, but in times of argument he rose like an angry emperor slashing controversy with vehement logic, scorching opponents with Voltairian sarcasm. Off the bench he was as genial as an Irish sergeant...
...dresses from the time of Queen Elizabeth to now), Peacock Promenade, Chinoiserie (women's smoking rooms), Club Room, Hunting Room, Jade Room, Powder Box, Venetian Room, Marie An toinette Room, Colonial Room, Empire Room and Music Room. The auditorium, simulating French Renaissance architecture, is dec orated in ivory, rose-red and turquoise blue. Some 38 years ago, the Atlantic washed onto the shores of the U. S. an entirely insignificant underfed boy of 16. In those days, immigrants were not taken so seriously. No one cared whether he could speak English, knew the articles of the Constitution, how much...