Word: sented
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Experienced cleanser and quieter of Texas towns is burly, bronzed General Wolters. After the War he took his rangy troopers to Galveston Island, there quelled a festering longshoremen's strike. Later he was sent to oil-booming Mexia (pronounced Mayhea) where bootleggers and guntoters had usurped municipal government. "Mopupus Jake" and his troopers drove the usurpers to the hills, followed them in airplanes, corralled them...
...entirely "escaped" was Congressman Michaelson. The department of Justice sent an agent to trace the itinerary of the Michaelsonian junket. At Port au Prince, Haiti, the agent obtained affidavits from the police chief, customs officers, a night club proprietor. All easily recalled details of the memorable visit of the Congressman and his jolly party. The Department of Justice's interest in the Michaelson case seemed to centre around the black word "perjury...
...Bacon Fall, onetime (1921-23) Secretary of the Interior, of bribery. It branded him as the first felon in a President's Cabinet in U. S. history. It made him liable to a three-year prison sentence, a $300,000 fine.* It changed the $100,000 in cash sent Fall in a little black bag by Oilman Edward Laurence Doheny from an innocent "loan" between old friends to a corrupt and criminal payment to influence the Secretary of the Interior to lease U. S. Naval Oil Reserve No. 1 at Elk Hills. Cal., to Doheny's Pan-American...
...casting was done by workmen sent from the Trocadero Museum in Paris, under the direction of Lerecule, a man of 82 years of age who has been in the work for over half a century...
After a week of experimental shifts, the lineup which will be sent against the Alligators seems to have been picked. Kuehn was again at right tackle in the brief signal drill. The fact that he has been holding that position for three days in succession indicates that he will get the call. W. Ticknor and Barrett were at right guard and left tackle respectively. These two will change posts on the offensive as in the Army and Dartmouth games. Richards was at center yesterday but B. Ticknor will undoubtedly take the pivot position tomorrow...