Word: departmental
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The Dixon appointment caused job-shuffling in Secretary Ray Lyman Wilbur's department. Edward Clingan Finney, chief (though passive) subordinate of Albert Bacon Fall and Hubert Work in the leasing and releasing of Teapot Dome, Elk Hills and Salt Creek oil fields, was demoted to the post of Solicitor...
Last year William Larsen, a Department of Justice secret agent, changed his name, on orders from Washington, to Peter Hansen. As Hansen, he secured, in an as-yet-unexplained manner, papers from the U. S. District Court in Detroit, Mich., committing him to the Atlanta Penitentiary for a liquor law...
Senator William Edgar Borah of Idaho plodded into the Department of Justice last week to demand of Attorney General Mitchell that the whole system of prison spying cease. Col. Mitchell weighed the question thoughtfully, and Senator Borah withheld comment until a decision should be announced. Meantime, Mrs. Willebrandt hinted that...
Indignant, the Department of Justice denied that snooping had anything to do with the Snook ouster.
Secretary Lamont has on his hands one problem that will certainly require the interposition of the President's power to straighten it out. This problem is the relationship in foreign fields of the State Department's diplomatic and consular representatives and the Commerce Department's commercial attaches...