Eliot Ness (48 page)

Ness appointed director of,
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–54,
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O’Hare, Edward “Easy Eddie,”
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Oldag, Louis,
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Olmstead, Roy,
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O’Neill, Francis,
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Outfit (Chicago Mob),
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bribery attempts of,
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Ness and his men harassed by,
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Torrio as leader of,
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youth gangs and,
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see also
Capone syndicate

Painters District Council,
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Pasley, Fred,
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Patton, James “Shimmy,”
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Pavlova, Anna,
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Pearce, Arthur J.,
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Pearl Harbor,
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Phelps, Joseph E.,
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Philippines,
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Phillis Wheatley Association,
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phone wiretapping,
see
wiretapping

Piazza, Philip,
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Picchi, Mike,
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Pickus, Abe,
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Pierce, Waldo,
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Pilliod, Gerard J.,
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Pirchner, Herman,
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Pittsburgh Mob,
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Plain Dealer,
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Ness’s mayoral campaign and,
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police corruption,
see
Cleveland Police Department, corruption in

police science,
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policy and clearing house games,
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Polillo, Florence,
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–44,
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,
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Polizzi, Albert (Chuck),
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polygraph (lie detector),
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–15

Porello, Joe,
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Porello, Vincenzo,
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Porter, Philip,
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Potts, Emmett,
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Pravda,
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Price, James,
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Prohibition,
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gangsters and,
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private clubs and,
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repeal of,
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–8,
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resistance to,
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women and,
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Prohibition Bureau,
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agents’ off-hours activities and,
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Chicago office of,
see
Chicago Prohibition office

City Hall Square incident and,
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corruption within,
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Ness’s early work at,
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professionalization of,
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Prohibition’s repeal and,
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Special Agency Division of,
see
Special Agency Division

transferred from Treasury Department to Justice Department,
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wiretapping of offices of,
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prohibition movement,
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prostitution,
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Reich’s views on,
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soldiers and,
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teen-sex scandal and,
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Prucha, Joseph F.,
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–41

Ptak, Frank,
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public dress codes,
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Pucel, Eddie,
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Pullman, Chicago,
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Purple Gang,
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Rand, Sally,
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Reader’s Digest,
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Reich, Wilhelm,
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Renoir, Pierre-Auguste,
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Republic Steel Corporation,
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Resnick, Steve,
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Retail Credit Company,
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Richardson, Willie,
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Richter, Albert,
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Ries, Fred,
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Rio, Frank,
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Robeson, Paul,
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Robinson, David L., Jr.,
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Robsky, Paul,
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later career of,
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wiretapping and,
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Rodzinski, Artur,
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Roosevelt, Eleanor,
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Roosevelt, Franklin D.,
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Roosevelt, Theodore,
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Rose, Billy,
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Rotary International Convention,
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Roth, Arthur,
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Rowe, Ernest,
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Russo, Philip,
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Sabath, Adolph J.,
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Sagalyn, Arnold,
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St. Valentine’s Day Massacre,
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Scerria, “Little Angelo,”
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Schreckengost, Viktor,
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Schrembs, Joseph,
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Schwartz, Raymond,
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Seager, Samuel “Maurice,”
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Seaver, Elisabeth Andersen,
see
Ness, Elisabeth “Betty”

Seaver, Hugh,
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Secret Six (Citizens’ Committee for the Prevention and Punishment of Crime),
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crime laboratory and,
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Ness’s bringing of idea to Cleveland,
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Seeley, Jim,
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Shaffer, Almon,
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Shampanore, G. Frank,
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Shoemaker, John W.,
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Shumway, Leslie,
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Silverman, Bud,
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Sims, Ralph,
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Sims, Robert,
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Slesick, Stanley,
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Smith, Al,
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Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act,
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Social Protection Division of the Office of Defense Health and Welfare Services (ODHWS),
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Ness appointed director of,
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–54

Special Agency Division,
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City Hall Square incident and,
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Ness’s joining of,
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Stafford, Harry,
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Standard Bank,
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Statler Hotel,
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Stege, John,
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Sterling, Robert D.,
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Stevenson, A. E.,
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Sticha, Jerry,
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stock market,
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crash of,
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Story, Frank,
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Stotts, Gaylord,
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Stouffer, Vernon,
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Stutzman, Warren E.,
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Sulzmann, John,
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Sunning
(Evaline Ness),
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Sutphin, A. C.,
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Sutton, Alvin,
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Svoboda, Steve,
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Swanson, John A.,
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Sweeney, Francis,
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letters to Ness from,
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Sweeney, Martin L.,
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Taft, Franny,
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Taylor, Myrtle,
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Taylor, Walter,
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teen-sex scandal,
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Terkel, Louis “Studs,”
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Thomas Club,
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Thompson, William “Big Bill,”
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Thorpe, Jim,
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Torrio, Johnny,
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Capone and,
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torso murders,
see
Cleveland torso murders

Touhy, Roger,
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traffic safety,
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Treasury Department:

Alcohol Tax Unit (ATU) of,
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–8,
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–24,
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Prohibition Bureau transferred to Justice Department from,
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Twenty-first Amendment,
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Tynan, Kenneth,
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union racketeering,
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Union Station,
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United Auto Workers (UAW),
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Unknowns,
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Untouchables (Capone squad),
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adventurousness of,
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bribes and,
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disbanding of,
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first meeting of,
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formation of,
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later careers of agents in,
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–8,
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men chosen for,
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Mob’s theft of cars of,
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Ness’s memories of,
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Ness’s relationship to agents of,
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nickname acquired by,
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raids on Capone’s operations by,
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raids on Capone’s successors by,
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Untouchables, The
(Ness and Fraley),
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Vaccarelli, Dan,
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Vanity Fair,
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Vehovec, Anton,
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venereal disease,
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vice campaigns,
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Vogue,
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Vollmer, August,
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as Berkeley police chief,
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Keeler and,
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as Los Angeles police chief,
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Ness influenced by,
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sex crimes as viewed by,
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Social Protection Division and,
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Volstead Act,
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case against Capone,
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Walker, Walter,
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Wallace, Rose,
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Walther, Julia,
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Warner, Pop,
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Washington, D.C.:

Nesses’ life in,
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women in,
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Webster, James,
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Weems, Ted,
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Weygandt, Carl V.,
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Wilkerson, James,
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Wilkinson, Dorothy,
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Wilkinson, Lewis,
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Willebrandt, Mabel,
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Williams, Oscar,
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Wilson, Frank,
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