Word: wheelerism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last year there was an investigation of the Attorney General by the House of Representatives. He was acquitted. Last week a new investigation of the Attorney General was opened by a Senate Committee, with Senator Wheeler, radical Democrat from Montana, as its "prosecutor." The first witnesses called by the Committee gave sensational testimony. These witnesses were the divorced wife of Jesse Smith, and Gaston B. Means, former Department of Justice "investigator...
...witness stand her principal testimony was in regard to things that her ex-husband had told her. Mr. Howland, attorney for Mr. Daugherty, objected that this was hearsay testimony and not admissable. Senator Wheeler said that he thought quotations from a dead man should be allowed as evidence...
...Senator Wheeler: "Yes and I have tried as many cases as you have. . . . There isn't going to be any bulldozing of this inquiry. . . . We won't take your petty small abuse. You will have every courtesy...
Gaston B. Means. The former agent of the Department of Justice described himself as follows when questioned by Senator Wheeler...
...With the exception of George Barr McCutcheon, those writing for the current (March) issue of McClure's are not well known. Their names: Ledyard M. Bailey, Orville M. Kile, Donald McGibeny, Alain Gerbault. Edmund Snell, Captain Frank Hurley, Ethel Comstock Bridgman, Margaret Wheeler Ross, Frederick A. Thompson, Mary Shannon, Major "Tom" Vigors, Zoe Beckley, John Randolph Hornady, Harry Benjamin, M.D., Anonymous, Franklin K. Sprague...