nov 13, 1909 - Collier's Magazine publishes an article by Louis R. Glavis Chief of the Field Division of the General Land Office, in which Secretary of Interior, Richard Ballinger, is charged with conspiracy in defrauding public land in the Alaska coal fields in 1907-08 during the Roosevelt Administration. At the time, Ballinger was Land Commissioner. This charge implicates the Taft Administration because in 1909 Ballinger is serving as Secretary of the Interior.
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nov 13, 1909
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~ 115 years ago