Word: wheeler
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wheeler Defense Committee, an impromptu organization with the purpose of helping the senator from Montana to protect himself from the machinations of the Department of Justice, is soliciting the nation at large for funds. Although this appeal probably will not meet a very great material response from American undergraduates for reasons which reflect not at all on the worth of the cause, it deserves at least their sympathy and moral support...
...ever a man were persecuted in an enlightened age of justice, Senator Wheeler is that man. When the leader of the Senate probe of the alleged corruption of the Department of Justice was first named in a federal indictment in his home state, it seemed outrageously patent to most people that the district attorney was not serving the simple ends of justice but following the dictates of a higher authority, seeking revenge. The Borah investigating committee cleared Senator Wheeler of the charges against him, but such an acquittal did not satisfy this higher power. The persecution continued,--this time...
...Wheeler: two years at Leavenworth, $1,000 fine. The crime was use of the mails in fraudulent promotion of an oil company. The jury had deliberated 29 hours...
...Coolidge '83, prominent Massachusetts politician and candidate for United States Senator in 1924, and like Mr. Kelley, a former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, and Professor J. H. Woods '87 of the Philosophy Department at the University, are among the other former editors who will attend the dinner. Leonard Wheeler Jr. '22, and R. A. Cutter '22. Editors of the Law Review of the University Law School, and David M. Little Jr. '18, formerly Assistant Dean and Tutor in the Division of Modern Languages, are also included on the list of almost a hundred editors past and present who will...
Born. To Burton K. Wheeler, junior LI. S. Senator from Montana, and Mrs. Wheeler, a daughter (7¼ lbs.); in Washington...