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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...each refusal to testify is considered as a separate offense he would be liable to ten times the penalty. ¶ The new member of the Committee, Senator Spencer, Republican of Missouri, proved a Tartar, carrying the war of words into the Democratic camp and clashing with Senator Walsh of Montana. To the attempts of Senator Walsh to attach the Republican National Committee to the oil scandal by means of its campaign contributions, Senator Spencer countered by subpenaing officials of the Democratic National Committee and Senator Walsh's brother and attorney. Instead of Walsh alone, Walsh and Spencer now share...

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

...member was inducted to fill the vacant Republican place on the Senate Committee on Public Lands? Senator Spencer of Missouri (Senator Lenroot having resigned). On his first appearance Senator Spencer attempted to do some questioning of a witness but was called to order by Senator Walsh, Democrat of Montana, who objected to "words being put in the witness' mouth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Peanuts and Pop | 3/31/1924 | See Source »

Last year there was an investigation of the Attorney General by the House of Representatives. He was acquitted. Last week a new investigation of the Attorney General was opened by a Senate Committee, with Senator Wheeler, radical Democrat from Montana, as its "prosecutor." The first witnesses called by the Committee gave sensational testimony. These witnesses were the divorced wife of Jesse Smith, and Gaston B. Means, former Department of Justice "investigator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: These Witnesses | 3/24/1924 | See Source »

...least fiery member of the Committee is Senator Brookhart, its Chairman, a bucolic rifleshot, with an evangelistic temperament. Senator Wheeler of Montana, colleague of Senator Walsh, prime mover of the oil investigation, is the active prosecutor. Wheeler is young, radical, a hard fighter, a smiling fighter, somewhat inclined, nevertheless, to lose his head. Strangely enough, he has the accent of Massachusetts, his native State. For comrades, Brookhart and Wheeler have the tart Moses from New Hampshire; Jones of Washington, normally placid and a bit heavy, but roaring, desk-pounding when aroused; Ashurst from Arizona, with a substantial "bazoo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Daugherty's Inquisitors | 3/17/1924 | See Source »

...magnate, had lent him $100,000. ¶ The publication of a telegram from Mr. Doheny to .Senator Walsh, investigator, saying "Merry Christmas from Mrs. Doheny and me to you and yours" and asking whether the Senator would take part with him in an oil venture in Montana. The telegram was sent before it was known that Mr. Doheny had lent $100,000 to Mr. Fall. Mr. Walsh replied by letter: "I should further appreciate very much indeed, the opportunity to be associated with you in some business enterprise. ... I cannot do so, however, because in the expansion of the business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Oily, Oily, Oily | 3/17/1924 | See Source »

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