Word: forbeses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Colonel Forbes was scheduled to be heard later in reply to these charges. He declared: " Every charge and every word of testimony, especially that of Elias H. Mortimer, reflecting on my personal or official integrity, is entirely false. . . . The only thing I ask the public is to withhold judgment until...
Colonel Forbes was a personal appointee of President Harding. He is a civil engineer by profession, schooled at Phillips Exeter Academy and Columbia University. In 1912 the Government despatched him to Honolulu in connection with the great military works of Pearl Harbor. He became Territorial Superintendent of Construction. During the...
At the first hearing of the investigating committee he appeared and clashed violently with General O'Ryan and with Frank T. Hines, present Director of the Bureau. Said Colonel Forbes: "I have come 3,000 miles and out of sick bed to be of such service as I can, and...
¶That Colonel Forbes employed Matthew O'Brien, an incompetent architect of San Francisco, to draw plans for a hospital; the plans were unusable, but O'Brien received $64,000 and is suing the Government for $13,000 more.
¶That while on the Pacific Coast he engaged in drinking and other disgraceful parties, after one of which, on a dare, Forbes and a woman jumped into Hayden Lake near Spokane.