Word: palmer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...East Libetty, Pa.; Charles Gage Brenneman of Ava, III.; Edgar Ray Broenniman, of New York; Geoffry Chamberlain, of Cambridge; Walton Dismukes, of Santa Ana, Cal.; Gerald Edward Donovan, of Auburndale; Arthur Bernard Gunnarson, of Minneapolis, Minn.; Alfred Janney Johnson, of Columbus, O.; Murray Webb Latimer, of Clinton; S. C. Palmer, and George Herdman Rutherford, of Lancaster...
...York lawyer who came into national prominence through his administration of the office of Alien Property Custodian during and after the War. He was also Assistant Attorney General of the U. S. In 1919 he became President of the Chemical Foundation, organized by himself, Attorney General Palmer, and others, to take over a number of German dye and chemical patents seized by his office during the War. On account of this direct interest, the Foundation has been the target of much litigation from the companies whose property was confiscated, but it has not been dissolved, and has devoted much...
Samuel M. Ralston, U. S. Senator from Indiana: " In reporting an interview that one of their reporters had had with Mr. A. Mitchell Palmer, the New York Tribune ignorantly referred to me as ' Senator James Ralston...
Among the pranks of fate for the week was what befell Senator Selden Palmer Spencer, Republican, of Missouri, on the recent death of Senator Dillingham of Vermont, Senator Dillingham was Chairman of the Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections, which passes on the eligibility of Senators to take their seats. Senator Spencer will succeed to that office by rule of seniority. It so happens that Senator Spencer was the great champion of Senator Truman H. Newberry in the deluge of mud which swept down upon that gentleman from 1918 through 1922 because he allegedly spent more than $100,000 campaigning...
...defense opened its case by calling to the stand A. Mitchell Palmer, former Alien Property Custodian whom Mr. Garvan succeeded, Mr. Palmer, Attorney General in 1919 and prominent candidate for the Democratic Presidential nomination , in 1920, made a frontal attack on the claims which the Government set up in the dye case. It was during his term as Alien Property Custodian that the plans for the sale of the German patents were first made, although the sales were mainly completed by Mr. Garvan. Part of Mr. Palmer's testimony was his disclosure of the circumstances under which President Wilson...