Word: specials
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Blackmer's presence has been considered essential to the Government's case by special attorneys onetime (1911-23) U. S. Senator Atlee Pomerene and Owen J. Roberts, in charge of the oil trials. Mr. Blackmer was onetime (1922) an official of the Prairie Oil Co., which, along with Sinclair oil companies, bought from a Canadian oil company 33,333,000 barrels of oil. The Canadian company had bought this oil from the Mexia (oil) companies of Texas. It was claimed that the Canadian company, which made some millions of dollars on the transaction, was a "shadow" or "dummy...
...discussed his flight at length as he dictated to a stenographer his special story published elsewhere in the New York Times...
...vacation-bound presidential special crossed South Dakota, the state turned into a 400-mile-long cheering section. Farmers stood in fields of young, ankle-high corn, forgot mortgages and vetoes, cheered. Townspeople gathered at railroad stations; in their hands were hats and flowers; in their hearts were peace and goodwill. Senator Peter Norbeck of South Dakota, long an insurgent, exclaimed, "We will not go into past regrets." Representative Charles A. Christopherson, farm-relief advocate, announced that all doubt concerning a third term had been swept away. The President made no speeches, no promises, receded not an inch from the posi...
...side issue, yet socially important, was the way in which the entire Lindbergh story emphasized the new "power of the press." As a molder of opinion on vital political issues, the newspapers may have almost ceased to function, but the development of press associations, of syndicates and of special writers has enabled them to take any outstanding event and bring thou- sands upon thousands of words upon it before the eyes of virtually every literate U. S. inhabitant. Who has not seen the Lindbergh photographs? Who, asked to whom the nicknames "Slim," "Lucky," apply, would hesitate for an answer...
Meanwhile, in Warsaw, Assassin Boris Kovenko declared to the Special Tribunal which sat upon his case: "I killed M. Vojkov, but I did not kill him as a person. I killed him because of what the Bolshevists have done in Russia...