Word: voided
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...expected, the Legislature declares the May election void, Senator Guzman, President of the Senate, a member of the Saavedra faction, will be President of the country until a new election can be held...
Judge McCormick had found the contrary, and had ruled that on this count as well as on the count of fraud and conspiracy, the Doheny leases were void...
...That on these two counts, the contracts and leases obtained by the Doheny companies were void...
...companies is now waiting decision. In the Teapot Dome case, the evidence of fraud was far less impressive-in fact, very fragmentary because so many witnesses were out of the country. But, if the Cheyenne judge follows the same reasoning as the Los Angeles judge, he will void the Teapot Dome lease-on the ground that President Harding had no authority to give Secretary Fall control of the Naval oil reserves...
...part of it all is that the Times is very near the truth. Even Harvard, which prides itself as being an intellectual institution does very little thinking. All the coarse frivolities of the small college are omitted to be sure, but in their place there is a vast grey void. Harvard has no fence, no skull caps, and no Freshman riots and for that it may be justly thankful, but in abolishing these petty nuisances, it has introduced no corresponding good. Harvard would have a better right to criticize the childishness of other colleges if it had more...