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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Testifying before a joint session of three Senate subcommittees investigating the extent of covert government intelligence operations, Weicker also produced documents indicating the White House had a strong interest in the tax problems encountered by presidential friends, evangelist Billy Graham and actor John Wayne...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Weicker Cites White House Abuse of IRS | 4/9/1924 | See Source »

...Jennings, former train robber, ex-evangelist, onetime politician and lately realtor of Venice, Calif., testified that he had had conversations with the late Jake Hamon, Republican National Committeeman from Oklahoma, in which Hamon had said: 1) that he bought the nomination of Harding in 1920 for $1,000,000; 2) that the late Senator Boies Penrose of Pennsylvania had received $250,000; 3) that Will Hays, Harry Daugherty and another man had each had $25,000; 4) that the New York delegation had been "very expensive"; 5) that Hamon had expected to become Secretary of the Interior and that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Investigations | 4/7/1924 | See Source »

HELL-BENT FER HEAVEN?A realistic and well acted play of the Kentucky mountains, with a skulking evangelist whose gospel is as dangerous as dynamite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: The Best Plays: Mar. 31, 1924 | 3/31/1924 | See Source »

HELL-BENT FER HEAVEN - Bright realism applied to a Southern evangelist who tries to shuffle his way into heaven with the methods of the cinema villain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: The Best Plays: Mar. 24, 1924 | 3/24/1924 | See Source »

...sign, the congregation, mostly female, rushed forward to the books, fell upon them, tore them page from page, and carried them, disiecta membra, to an incinerator in the rear. The organ played, the choir sang, the evangelist continued to lead the exultant cries of the good Christians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Book-Business | 3/3/1924 | See Source »

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