Word: wheelerism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...following his election to the U. S. Senate but before he was sworn in, Burton K. Wheeler accepted $2,000 from one Gordon Campbell, Montana oil man. On Feb. 16, 1923, he accepted $2,000 from Mr. Campbell. Were these fees for services rendered in advancing the Campbell oil interests with the U. S. Department of the Interior? Or were they fees for services rendered in litigation in Montana...
That this question may be answered, Senator Wheeler was, last week, brought to trial in the Federal Court, Great Falls, Mont., before Judge Frank Dietrich...
...penalty will descend upon Senator Wheeler for having served his client in Montana. But if he appeared before the Department of the Interior on behalf of his client, he can be fined $10,000, or imprisoned for two years, or both...
...Government case was conspicuous for the absence of two witnesses and the presence of one. Neither George Lockwood, former Secretary of the Republican National Committee, nor Blair Coan, sleuth, was present. A year ago Mr. Lockwood sent Mr. Coan to Montana to "get something on Senator Wheeler." The U. S. District Attorney in the present case simply said : "There is no reason to call them...
...Wheeler goes on trial in Montana on Apr. 16, under an indictment returned a year ago charging that, while Senator, he accepted a fee to represent his client before the Department of the Interior (TIME, May 26, June 2, THE CONGRESS). The new indictment for conspiracy reveals no new evidence. As far as the public has yet learned, Mr. Wheeler's connection with the land-grabbing is so tenuous as to be invisible to the naked eye. But then, full facts are not usually made public before the trial-in this case, two trials. Senator Wheeler, who drove Harry...