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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...brother and attorney. Instead of Walsh alone, Walsh and Spencer now share the leading role of chief investigator. Daugherty : ¶ Following Mr. Daugherty's resignation from the Department of Justice, the investigating committee decided it would continue its job of making revelations. ¶ P. J. Van Vechten Olcott, Manhattan lawyer, testified that he had been approached and asked to furnish $10,000 to be appointed a Federal judge, and to pay $25,000 additional when the nomination was confirmed. He declared that no beneficiaries were named, except "the boys." ¶ A special agent of the Department of Justice testified...

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

...worm lias turned-a managerial one. Among the pieces which Oliver Morosco intends to try out on the Coast this summer is one called Schemers by William Irving Sirovich-a satire upon New York theatrical critics. The chief characters are Alan Gale, A. Wood Brown, James Corbett and Alex Olcott, and ah, what a rapping they get! Now can any clever little boy or girl tell just what New York critics, Mr. Sirovich has in mind? Thank you-the next puzzle competition will consist in guessing the missing letters in Philadelpia. Henry E. Dixey and Wilton Lackaye had been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre Notes, May 28, 1923 | 5/28/1923 | See Source »

Constitution and Membership.--W. W. Dulles of Princeton, chairman; D. W. Olcott of Williams; W. C. Worthington of Brown...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEWS DISCUSSIONS GO INTO COMMITTEE | 5/12/1923 | See Source »

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