World news wrap prompts peace, politics, and incidents
A week of global updates covers William Jennings Bryan urging debt cancellation for war loans in exchange for disarmament, Britain eyeing a new League council rep, and England recognizing Mexico amid upheavals. Reports include Coolidge labor, U.S. oil probes, Prohibition raids, and a mine disaster in Illinois.
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Bryan
Memphis
Tenn
United States
Bobs
President Coolidge vows prosecutions in naval oil leases scandal
President Coolidge declares that if guilt or civil liability exists it will be punished or enforced. He orders federal counsel to prosecute cases in court and cancel illegal contracts as evidence from senate hearings warrants action. White House lights burn all night as advisers meet to discuss the case.
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Coolidge
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Justice Department
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White House
FALL MAY NOT TAKE STAND
Albert B. Fall the former secretary of the interior, lies bedridden and exhausted, with doctors reporting only slight bronchial improvement. Friends say he may not appear before the senate investigating committee soon, amid rumors of political pressure over the Sinclair and Doheny leases.
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Albert Bacon Fall
Interior
E. L. Doheny
Pan-American Oil Corporation
Doheny
Senate
Teapot Dome
Secretary of the Interior
Fall
Harry F. Sinclair
Washington
Albert B. Fall
Harding
Sinclair and Doheny
Radio Trust Charged With Creating Monopoly in Radio Equipment
Washington report says RCA General Electric American Telephone and Telegraph Westinghouse Western Electric International Radio United Fruit and Wireless Specialty faced a federal trade commission complaint. They are ordered to answer within thirty days to charges of unfair competition harming the public.
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Washington
Federal Trade Commission
Radio Corporation of America
General Electric
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Westinghouse
Western Electric
International Radio
United Fruit and Wireless Specialty
Osage Oil Leases Put Up For Auction
Secretary Work authorizes sale at auction March 18 and 19 of oil leases on Osage Indian lands in Oklahoma. About 100000 acres offered in 160 acre tracts.
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Fall
Quapas
Oklahoma
United States
Courtland M. Fenquay
Washington
Work
Albert Phenis Dies At 70 In Catonsville
Albert Phenis longtime editor of the Manufacturers Record died at his Paradise Catonsville home after a long illness. He was 70 years old.
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Richard Green
Washington
Treasury
Jack King
Oklahoma City
Hoyt Howington
Howington
Albert Phenis
Baltimore
Manufacturer’s Record
Paradise
Catonsville
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