Word: sargent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Harding's Secretary Albert Bacon Fall and renewed by President Coolidge's whilom Secretary Dr. Hubert Work. It was a lease which Senator Walsh of Montana, famed oil inquisitor, had suspected and asked to be investigated. President Coolidge had asked his Attorney-General, rustic John Garibaldi Sargent of Vermont, to investigate, last April. Now, in the pressure of the presidential campaign, it had popped out that the lease and its renewal were beyond doubt illegal and voidable. It was also apparent that Attorney-General Sargent had been withholding an adverse opinion until after Election...
...York Evening Sun (Republican) reported the incident as follows in its news columns: "His [Attorney General Sargent's] hand was forced . . . when President Coolidge, taking cognizance of the charges of Senator Walsh, bluntly told the Attorney-General that the opinion never should have been delayed in publication. The President is described as having been nettled when he learned that his own departments had been holding out on him in the matter of this aftermath of the oil scandals, and to have issued orders that action be taken instanter without regard to the election of November...
...summary follows: HARVARD CLARK Faude, Salmon, g. g., Carlson Stollmeyer, l.f.b. r.f.b., Deeks Des Roches, r.f.b. l.f.b., O'Neil Bland, l.h.b. r.h.b., A. Haddad W. D. Carter, Hubbard, c.h.b. c.h.b., Spadola Sargent, Booth, Chapel, r.h.b. l.h.b., W. Haddad Bodde, o.l. o.r., G. Higgonbottam Vogel, i.l. i.r., W. Higgonbottam Grover, Kerness, c.f. c.f., Parker Cooper, Carrigan, i.r. i.l., Doberty E. C. Carter, Paton, o.r. o.l., Rogers, Swenson...
HARVARD CLARK Salmon, g. g., Carlson Stollmeyer, r.f.b. l.f.b., O'Neill Sargent, l.f.b. r.f.b., Deeks Rudd, r.h.b. l.h.b., W. Haddad W. Carter, c.h.b. c.h.b., Spadola Booth, l.h.b. r.h.b., A. Haddad E. Carter, r.o.f. l.o.f., G. Higgenbottom Cooper, r.i.f. l.i.f., A. Higgenbottom Grover, c.f. c.f., Parker Vogel, l.i.f. r.i.f., Doherty Bodde, l.o.f. r.o.f., Rogers...
...visit Phoenix. William O'Brien, candidate of the Workers' (Communist) Party for Governor of Arizona, began searching small-town jails through the Southwest. Suspicion pointed to El Paso, in the western corner of Texas, then to Nogales, on the Arizona-Mexico Border. Attorney-General Sargent and Governor Hunt of Arizona were both notified they would be held responsible for the Nominee's safety. There were two days of minor furore in minor circles. Then up turned Nominee Gitlow in Houston, Tex. He had not been kidnapped, he said. He had merely tarried two extra days...