Word: voided
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...military as well as the naval part of the British and French bargain must be declared null and void...
...bids. Dr. Hubert Work, Fall's successor, renewed the Cat Creek contract last year without getting the Department of Justice's opinion. Last week Attorney General Sargent advised Secretary of the Interior West that, in view of the secret option, the Cat Creek contract was illegal, void. This time, Dr. Work did not bother to say, as he said of the Salt Creek incident: "People are tired of hearing of these oil leases...
Secretary Work renewed the contract. Last week, after the contract had been voided by Attorney General Sargent, Dr. Work cited a letter written by Senator Walsh last winter in which the Inquisitor had said: "I am unable to understand how the Government can escape the obligation to renew the contract. . . ." Dr. Work apparently ignored or failed to comprehend the whole import of what Senator Walsh had said. For Senator Walsh had qualified his view that the option was inescapable, by saying: ". . . except it [the U. S.] treats it [the lease] as void or voidable." Senator Walsh's opinion...
...going to expose "another oil scandal." On Oct. 15. the World and Senator Walsh began telling the story of the Salt Creek lease and its renewal. On Oct. 16, the World continued the story. That afternoon. Attorney General Sargent signed and issued an opinion holding the Salt Creek lease void in the first instance and its renewal void as a result...
Sending someone to vote in the name of a person known to be out of town. Folding the ballots so that, after they have been cast, they can be read at one peep and quickly "corrected." Concealing pencil-lead under one's finger nails to void ballots by extra marks. Dropping ballots behiA-3 the box instead of through the slot. "The more handling a ballot gets, the surer it is to turn up in favor of the other candidate. . . . And . . . you gotta make sure the ballot boxes are empty before the voting starts. Sometimes...