Word: specials
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...appoint Charles Beecher Warren to enforce the trust laws against himself and his associates is as wicked as to appoint Albert Fall special prosecutor of Harry Sinclair. Fall could be bought. Warren is owned in advance...
...Agreed, by vote of 73 to 2, to make the proposal that the U. S. join the World Court a special order of business on Dec. 17 next...
...first scene of the Government's civil suit against Harry F. Sinclair for cancellation of the lease given him on the Naval Reserve of Teapot Dome was enacted at Cheyenne. Owen J. Roberts and Atlee Pomerene, special counsel for the Government, marshaled their witnesses for the attack. Harry F. Sinclair was subpoenaed. So was Albert B. Fall, ex-Secretary of the Interior, who made the lease. Both are expected to decline to testify on the grounds that they might incriminate themselves. The sons-in-law of Mr. Fall were also summoned. At least one of them, Milton T. Everhart...
...dispute between Poland and Danzig, called the "Mail Box Dispute" (TIME, Feb. 23), was referred for settlement to a special session of the World Court...
Petrushka, a ballet about a silly, tragic rag doll with a soul, by Igor Stravinsky, was revived last week, at the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan. There was only one Russian in the cast. He, Adolph Bolm, took the part of the sawdust Caliban, capered foolishly, pathetically, to his special tune- a fanfare for two trumpets a minor second apart. Rosina Galli was the limber ballerina. At the end of the performance, Mr. Stravinsky was discovered to be present, hailed before the curtain, presented with an overstuffed floral wreath, according to Metropolitan tradition...