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...young U.S. attorney named Maurice M. Milligan was cleaning up Kansas City, sending one Pendergast henchman after another to jail for vote frauds, getting closer & closer to the Big Boss himself. When Milligan came up for reappointment, Truman did his best to ease him out, made one of the bitterest speeches ever heard on the Senate floor. Milligan got the reappointment anyway, promptly sent Pendergast to prison for evading income taxes on some of his slush money. Truman shouted: "Purely political. . . . I won't desert a ship in distress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Billion-Dollar Watchdog | 3/8/1943 | See Source »

...Louis, but he is a busy little fighter. His real name is Sidney Walker and he is an orphan. When he was a moppet, he was found asleep in the locker room of the Augusta (Ga.) National Golf Club, Bobby Jones's home sod. Bowman Milligan, the club steward, made him shoeshine boy. When the club put on battles royal, Little Beau always picked up the coins. Before long, the happy-go-lucky, flat-faced ragamuffin became the mascot of Jones and his friends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Stork Club Champ | 11/23/1942 | See Source »

...Eliot House Junior Common Room the Harvard Debating Council elected three new officers for the coming year. In addition they decided general policies for the coming year and planned intra-council debates. The new men will be John E. Corrigan '44, President, Sheldon K. Beren, Vice-President, and Melvin Milligan, Secretary-Treasurer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Officers Elected For Debating Council | 10/28/1942 | See Source »

...Meyer, S. G. Miller, G. M. Milligan, G. B. Mills, Henry Mohr, A. M. Moore, K. C. Moore, J. R. Moorehead, R. F. Morris, R. G. Mountain, J. R. Myers, H. B. Myres, V. E. Newe, R. E. Owen, R. A. Parish, H. W. Park, Jr., W. E. Peavy, Jr., R. E. Pembrock, Jr., Perrizo Mitchel, Jr., C. W. Plumb, Jr., C. F. Printz, C. G. Purnell, T. B. Quiggle, H. S. Ray, D. J. Ritger, F. B. Rose, N. E. Schlenker, R. K. Scholton, D. C. Scott, J. B. Shuler, B. F. Simpson, W. E. Stapp...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 125 Naval Officers Chosen for New School | 7/27/1942 | See Source »

...Milligan, M. L., II; Minott, J. A., Jr.; Morgan, T. E.; Morse, D. P.; Mosely, D. B. Murphy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEW HOUSE MEMBERS | 5/20/1942 | See Source »

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