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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...John P. ("Jerry") Rusk, was a few years ago Speaker of the legislature of Oregon. More recently he has dwelt in Wyoming. Recently he ran for the office of county prosecutor in Weston County, Wyo., against one James A. Greenwood. The seasoned Rusk was victorious at the polls. But later he presented a resolution to the county commissioners declaring that Greenwood had illegally retained a typewriter and law books belonging to the public office. Infuriated, Greenwood, overcome at the polls but not overcome in the flesh, engaged with Rusk. Before one of Greenwood's lusty blows, the skull...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: In Wyoming | 1/4/1926 | See Source »

...Louis U. Su attorneys filed an appeal in the case of the U. S. v. The Mammoth Oil Co., et al.-the famous suit for the annulment of the Teapot Dome oil lease to Harry F. Sinclair. The suit tried in Cheyenne, Wyo., was decided against the Government by Federal Judge T. Blake Kennedy (TIME, June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: Appeals | 10/12/1925 | See Source »

Oddie (Nev.) Kendrick (Wyo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Famed Committee | 8/17/1925 | See Source »

Less than three months after he had taken the case under advisement, Federal Judge T. Blake Kennedy of Cheyenne, Wyo., rendered a decision. The case was the suit of the U. S. to cancel the lease of Naval Oil reserve No. 3 (known as Teapot Dome) to Harry F. Sinclair's oil interests. The decision was that the lease should stand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: Judges Disagree | 6/29/1925 | See Source »

Last week, the Izaak Walton League announced itself to be desirous of money offerings from U. S. sportsmen to make up a Christmas present to the elk herds of the Jackson Hole Region, Wyo. The present would be in the form of lands adjacent to Winter Elk Refuge and of an emergency hay fund, to supplement Federal and State appropriations in starvation winters. Said Dr. E. W. Nelson, Chief of the U. S. Biological Survey: "And a real present in the spirit of the Christmas season it will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Wild Beasts | 12/15/1924 | See Source »

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