Word: oregon
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Franklin MacVeagh, Secretary of the Treasury, and Mr. Julius Kruttschnitt, Director of Maintenance and Operation of the Union Pacific, Oregon Short Line, and Southern Pacific Rail-roads, will speak here this spring under the auspices of the Graduate School of Business Administration. The date of Mr. MacVeagh's lecture, which will probably be on "Business Standards," has not been definitely decided, but it will be given sometime during the latter part of March or early in April; and the date of Mr. Kruttschnitt's lecture on the "Operating Efficiency of our Railroads" will be April 26. Both lectures will...
...years ago he started the Spreckels investigation of San Francisco municipal affairs. Among his colleagues, were Freemont Older, editor of the San Francisco Bulletin, Francis J. Heney, who was chosen to conduct the prosecution because of his success in the Oregon land fraud case, and William J. Burns, the well-known detective. Evidence of fraud was traced even to the bankers of the public service corporations. Ruef, the boss, confessed, as did most of the supervisors. Many of the richest men in the state were indicted...
...From 188 to 1894 he practiced law in Arizona, later moving to San Francisco. Since 1900 he has been the most prominent figure concerned in the fight for the abolition of bribery and graft on the Pacific Slope. He acted as attorney for the government in the Oregon land fraud cases, and later secured indictments against United States Attorney J. H. Hall, Senator Mitchell, G. C. Brownell, and others, for conspiring to protect guilty politicians. At this time he was serving as temporary district attorney in Oregon for the United States. While trying the cases for the removal of these...
...Politics is a problem and it is one problem. It is the same in Boston as in San Francisco, the same in Missouri as in Oregon, the same in the United States as in France. I was police reporter at headquarters in New York where it was my duty to expose scandal. Scandal being exposed, the city was aroused to investigation. Theodore Roosevelt was appointed police commissioner. He tried to compel the police to enforce all laws equally. Trouble arose at once. Leading citizens of New York came with protests and the reform movement was checked...
...Charles Scadding, Bishop of Oregon, will give an illustrated lecture on "The Strategic Importance of the Northwest," in Peabody Hall of the Phillips Brooks House this evening at 7 o'clock. Bishop Scadding has had an important part in the development of this part of the country and so can speak from experience. Stereopticon views of the country will be shown...