Word: woodnut
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...investigation committee, discovered the bootlegging connections of the Ohio Gang, put the names of Jesse Smith, Roxie Stimson and Gaston B. Means in headlines, forced President Coolidge to accept Attorney General Daugherty's resignation. Further probing into the Alien Property Custodian's office, he sent Custodian Thomas Woodnut Miller to the penitentiary. In retaliation, Daugherty agents dug up a case in Montana in which Senator Wheeler was accused of accepting a fee to get an oil lease transferred. Tried in 1925, he was acquitted in Great Falls in ten minutes. Brought up again in the District of Columbia...
...During the Harding Administration Thomas Woodnut Miller, Alien Property Custodian, was on the fringe of the "Ohio Gang." As the liquidated assets of American Metals Co., seized during the War, he paid $6,453,979 to a German capitalist named Richard Merton representing a Swiss concern. As his "fee" Merton turned $441,000 in Liberty Bonds over to G. O. Politicians. Of this sum $50,000 was traced to Miller who claimed he received it as payment of a debt the party owed him. Other amounts went to Jesse Smith. Attorney General Harry Daugherty's henchman, and to Connecticut...
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