Author: James Leonard Bates
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252024702
Category : Legislators
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Thomas J. Walsh, Democratic senator from Montana from 1913 to 1933, fought throughout his long career against corruption and monopoly power. His most celebrated coup was breaking open the Teapot Dome scandal of 1923 -- 24, revealing that the secretary of the interior had accepted "loans" from oil men in return for leases of U.S. naval oil reserves.
Senator Thomas J. Walsh of Montana
Author: James Leonard Bates
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252024702
Category : Legislators
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Thomas J. Walsh, Democratic senator from Montana from 1913 to 1933, fought throughout his long career against corruption and monopoly power. His most celebrated coup was breaking open the Teapot Dome scandal of 1923 -- 24, revealing that the secretary of the interior had accepted "loans" from oil men in return for leases of U.S. naval oil reserves.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252024702
Category : Legislators
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Thomas J. Walsh, Democratic senator from Montana from 1913 to 1933, fought throughout his long career against corruption and monopoly power. His most celebrated coup was breaking open the Teapot Dome scandal of 1923 -- 24, revealing that the secretary of the interior had accepted "loans" from oil men in return for leases of U.S. naval oil reserves.
Lobby Investigation: October 15-18, 21-23, 1929
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
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Category : Lobbying
Languages : en
Pages : 1252
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Category : Lobbying
Languages : en
Pages : 1252
Book Description
Political Hell-Raiser
Author: Marc C. Johnson
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806163771
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 505
Book Description
Burton K. Wheeler (1882–1975) may have been the most powerful politician Montana ever produced, and he was one of the most influential—and controversial—members of the United States Senate during three of the most eventful decades in American history. A New Deal Democrat and lifelong opponent of concentrated power—whether economic, military, or executive—he consistently acted with a righteous personal and political independence that has all but disappeared from the public sphere. Political Hell-Raiser is the first book to tell the full story of Wheeler, a genuine maverick whose successes and failures were woven into the political fabric of twentieth-century America. Wheeler came of political age amid antiwar and labor unrest in Butte, Montana, during World War I. As a crusading United States attorney, he battled Montana’s powerful economic interests, championed farmers and miners, and won election to the U.S. Senate in 1922. There he made his name as one of the “Montana scandalmongers,” uncovering corruption in the Harding and Coolidge administrations. Drawing on extensive research and new archival sources, Marc C. Johnson follows Wheeler from his early backing of Franklin D. Roosevelt and ardent support of the New Deal to his forceful opposition to Roosevelt’s plan to expand the Supreme Court and, in a move widely viewed as political suicide, his emergence as the most prominent spokesman against U.S. involvement in World War II right up to three days before Pearl Harbor. Johnson provides the most thorough telling of Wheeler’s entire career, including all its accomplishments and contradictions, as well as the political storms that the senator both encouraged and endured. The book convincingly establishes the place and importance of this principled hell-raiser in American political history.
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806163771
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 505
Book Description
Burton K. Wheeler (1882–1975) may have been the most powerful politician Montana ever produced, and he was one of the most influential—and controversial—members of the United States Senate during three of the most eventful decades in American history. A New Deal Democrat and lifelong opponent of concentrated power—whether economic, military, or executive—he consistently acted with a righteous personal and political independence that has all but disappeared from the public sphere. Political Hell-Raiser is the first book to tell the full story of Wheeler, a genuine maverick whose successes and failures were woven into the political fabric of twentieth-century America. Wheeler came of political age amid antiwar and labor unrest in Butte, Montana, during World War I. As a crusading United States attorney, he battled Montana’s powerful economic interests, championed farmers and miners, and won election to the U.S. Senate in 1922. There he made his name as one of the “Montana scandalmongers,” uncovering corruption in the Harding and Coolidge administrations. Drawing on extensive research and new archival sources, Marc C. Johnson follows Wheeler from his early backing of Franklin D. Roosevelt and ardent support of the New Deal to his forceful opposition to Roosevelt’s plan to expand the Supreme Court and, in a move widely viewed as political suicide, his emergence as the most prominent spokesman against U.S. involvement in World War II right up to three days before Pearl Harbor. Johnson provides the most thorough telling of Wheeler’s entire career, including all its accomplishments and contradictions, as well as the political storms that the senator both encouraged and endured. The book convincingly establishes the place and importance of this principled hell-raiser in American political history.
Combinations in Restraint of Trade in Bread and Related Products
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
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Category : Antitrust law
Languages : en
Pages : 444
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Category : Antitrust law
Languages : en
Pages : 444
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International Brotherhood of Blacksmiths, Drop Forgers and Helpers Monthly Journal
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Category : Blacksmiths
Languages : en
Pages : 680
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Category : Blacksmiths
Languages : en
Pages : 680
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International Brotherhood of Blacksmiths, Drop Forgers and Helpers Bi-monthly Journal
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Category : Blacksmiths
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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Category : Blacksmiths
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Compensation for Employees in Certain Maritime Employments
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
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Category : Stevedores
Languages : en
Pages : 852
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Category : Stevedores
Languages : en
Pages : 852
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Senator from Maine
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Privileges and Elections
Publisher:
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Category : Bribery
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Investigates alleged bribery of New Brunswick, Canada, Premier by Arthur R. Gould, prior to being elected Senator from Maine.
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Category : Bribery
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Investigates alleged bribery of New Brunswick, Canada, Premier by Arthur R. Gould, prior to being elected Senator from Maine.
Senator from Maine
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Privileges and Elections. Subcommittee on S. Res. 278
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Category : Bribery
Languages : en
Pages : 510
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Category : Bribery
Languages : en
Pages : 510
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Senate Election Cases from the 1913 to 1940
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Privileges and Elections
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 812
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 812
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