Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the JudiciaryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Investigation by the Dept. of Justice Re Senator Burton K. Wheeler
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the JudiciaryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Investigation by the Department of Justice Re Senator Burton K. Wheeler
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the JudiciaryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Governmental investigations
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Catalogue of the Public Documents of the ... Congress and of All Departments of the Government of the United States for the Period from ... to ...
Author: United States. Superintendent of DocumentsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 2308
Book Description
Political Hell-Raiser
Author: Marc C. JohnsonPublisher: 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.
Catalogue of the Public Documents of the [the Fifty-third] Congress [to the 76th Congress] and of All Departments of the Government of the United States
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Author: United States. Superintendent of DocumentsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 2476
Book Description
Monthly Catalogue, United States Public Documents
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1338
Book Description
Monthly Catalogue, United States Public Documents
Author: United States. Superintendent of DocumentsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1316
Book Description
CIS US Congressional Committee Hearings Index: 69th Congress-73rd Congress (5 v.)
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Index to Hearings and Reports of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, for the Period 66th-91st Congresses (1921-1970)
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the JudiciaryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Legislative hearings
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
King of the Bootleggers
Author: William A. CookPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786491574
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
As a pharmacist turned lawyer turned master prohibition era bootlegger, George Remus is now remembered as one of the most notorious figures of the American prohibition. Even though he was a lifelong teetotaler, Remus built one of the nation's largest illegal liquor empires with little regard to disguises or secrecy. This biography tells the complete story of Remus' private life and public persona, focusing especially on the turbulent rise and fall of his bootlegging kingdom. It begins with an overview of Remus' early life and careers in pharmacy and law, and covers his bootlegging career, including his overwhelmingly successful early business ventures, his 1922 bootlegging conviction, his murder of wife Imogene (after she had a well-publicized affair with prohibition agent Franklin Dodge), and Remus' subsequent trial for her murder.