Word: wyo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Hoover last week knocked the first word from Patrick Jay Hurley's title of Assistant Secretary of War. On the same day the President asked Mr. Hurley to change the name of Fort Russell at Cheyenne, Wyo., to Fort Warren as a ''fine tribute" to the late Senator Francis Emroy Warren of Wyoming...
...brawn. Pious folk, disregarding the regional aspect, rejoiced and quoted statistics to show ministers' children out number all others in Who's Who. Educators searched deeper for significant causes, found: 1) Bishop Simeon Arthur Huston, a cultured gentleman, has been (1917-19) President of the State Board of Education, Wyo., but had grieved when he saw his son spurn the classics for science; 2) an uncle and grandfather, both scholars, are also plant breeders, interested in science; 3) Winner Huston, unlike most of the candidates has traveled extensively, following his father from parish to parish, spending six years in Cheyenne...
Died. Georges Landoy, editor of Matin of Antwerp, Belgium; in Yellowstone National Park, Wyo. Touring the U. S. with a party of European journalists (guests of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace), waiting to see Old Faithful Geyser spout, he, too near the Castle Geyser just as it spouted, was fatally scalded...
...field in Montana. In 1922, Albert Bacon Fall, defamed Secretary of the Interior, gave the Lewistown Oil and Refining Co. a contract to buy the Government's Cat Creek royalty oil. As in the case of Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair's contract for Salt Creek, Wyo., oil,* Fall gave the Lewistown people an option to renew their contract after five years, although no such option had been mentioned in the advertisements for bids. Dr. Hubert Work, Fall's successor, renewed the Cat Creek contract last year without getting the Department of Justice's opinion. Last week...
...visited Casper, Wyo., hard by the famed Teapot Dome and Salt Creek oil reserves. In cutaway and striped trousers, he sat down for "chow" with oil-drillers in a mess hall...