As onetime Secretary of the Interior Albert Bacon Fall lay in an Albuquerque hospital recovering from pneumonia, the famed 1,000,000-acre Three Rivers Ranch in New Mexico, on which Secretary Fall said he spent the $100,000 bribe which he took from Oilman Edward L. Doheny in the Teapot Dome scandal, was sold for a dude ranch.
Finding him "grossly negligent in the performance of his duties as a director," Judge John Clark Knox ruled in Manhattan Federal Court that pious, stockbreeding Chain-Storeman James Cash Penney, as chairman (and only non-dummy director) of Miami's defunct City...
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