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Charles William Eliot, the president of Harvard University, has received President Roosevelt’s request for information and will get back to him as quickly as possibly.
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1901-11-04
James E. West thanks Samuel Gompers for his courteous letter and appreciates the full report of the Executive Council of the American Federation of Labor regarding an investigation into the Boy Scouts of America. As the chosen committee investigates, the Boy Scouts of America are prepared to respond to any request the committee may make of them.
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1911-12-18
Samuel Gompers informs James E. West of the receipt of his letter and provides the full report of the Executive Council of the American Federation of Labor regarding an investigation into the Boy Scouts of America. A committee was formed to thoroughly investigate the Boy Scout Movement and report on it’s influence. Gompers will share more after the next Executive Council meeting.
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1911-12-15
President Roosevelt tells Postmaster General Cortelyou he has become uncomfortable with William Barret Ridgely due to the “Walsh matter.” He would like Cortelyou to determine if Ridgely should be retained when Cortelyou becomes Secretary of Treasury.
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1907-01-19
William E. Glasscock appreciates the Richard Randolph McMahon’s approval of Glasscock’s plan to challenge the election of Senator’s William E. Chilton and Clarence Wayland Watson. Glasscock will provide the letter written by McMahon to the press because it argues the case of an investigation so well. Glasscock plans to petition Congress for an investigation at the opening of the next session.
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1911-10-02
N. M. Ruick provides Attorney General Bonaparte information on a conspiracy to defraud the United States of timber lands in Idaho. Ruick mentions that Governor Steunenberg was involved in the conspiracy, and suggests the possibility that Steunenberg’s murder case is being used to check the investigation of the frauds.
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1907-03-29
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Keep writes to William Loeb acknowledging receipt of Loeb’s letter, in which President Roosevelt advises Keep’s committee to carry out an investigation concerning the printing machines that were bought for the Government Printing Office. Keep says that the committee plans to address the matter right away.
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1905-06-26
Mary Eleanor O’Donnell reports on the conditions found among women strike-breakers in the stockyard plants of Chicago. She describes her experience working as a strike-breaker in the kitchen at Swift & Co.’s, noting the unsanitary environment and difficult working conditions. O’Donnell provides 15 facts she found from her investigation into the condition the strike-breakers housed in stock yard plants, including the violation of city laws, “the bringing of paupers and criminals to the city to fill the places of strikers,” the “distribution of impure, vile foodstuffs,” unsanitary conditions likely to spread disease, and the disregard of moral laws.
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1904-08-19
Benjamin F. Barnes indicates that President Roosevelt asked him to investigate a matter that was brought up by Archie Roosevelt.
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1904-06-26
At the request of President Roosevelt, Presidential Secretary Benjamin F. Barnes encloses a letter from William Allen White and requests a confidential report on the matter discussed.
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1903-07-14
Theodore Roosevelt thanks New York State Senator Bayne for the volumes on the Albany investigation.
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1912-06-08
Theodore Roosevelt received George Lundy’s former letter but cannot get involved with such an investigation as he describes.
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1915-03-24
President Roosevelt returns George S. Terry’s letter to Leonard Eckstein Opdycke. Roosevelt is having the matter investigated and asks Opdycke to write to Dr. Newton M. Shaffer to about the serious charges against Terry.
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1909-01-28
President Roosevelt tells United States Representative Lilley that James F. J. Archibald was not appointed or employed by the administration, but rather contacted Roosevelt and said that he was going to conduct an independent investigation of submarine defense on the Pacific Coast of the United States, looking particularly at Puget Sound. Roosevelt told him that he would be glad to receive such a report from anyone who investigated the subject. When Roosevelt received Archibald’s letter on the topic, he forwarded it to Secretary of the Navy Victor Howard Metcalf, as he does with other similar letters.
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1908-03-18
President Roosevelt praises William Dudley Foulke and Lucius B. Swift, and says that he does not have any objection to an investigation of whether he has influenced local civil service appointments, so long as the investigation is conducted honestly. He suggests that whoever does the investigation cooperate with the Department of Justice, as Attorney General Charles J. Bonaparte is familiar with the topic. Roosevelt also suggests several departments where it may be profitable to begin such an investigation.
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1908-02-25
President Roosevelt has received a clipping and a letter urging investigation, but decided to ask Civil Service Commissioner McIlhenny about the matter privately before taking action. Roosevelt tells him they can discuss it when he returns from his honeymoon.
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1907-12-09
President Roosevelt sends sympathy to his cousin-in-law Nannie Vance Roosevelt for her recent personal and legal troubles with her brother-in-law Constant Abram Andrews. He cannot exercise any power to interfere with the matter in any way, but assures Roosevelt that her husband, John Ellis Roosevelt, has the legal acumen to inform her of what should be done.
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1907-03-06
President Roosevelt received S. S. McClure’s letter, but does not see how the council or Commission can say anything about the matter until the investigation is completed.
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1907-03-03
President Roosevelt encloses a report for Charles Stedman Hanks regarding charges made against the Interstate Commerce Commission statistician Henry C. Adams by George W. R. Harriman. After an investigation, it has been proven that these charges have been made without foundation and Roosevelt declares the incident closed.
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1907-01-31
President Roosevelt reminds Isthmian Canal Commission Chairman Shonts to investigate whether mechanics and other workers on the canal project are required to travel second class instead of first class on the boats to Panama.
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1906-11-27