Through San Francisco's summer fog flickered a fire, kindled under an office chair. The fire was set in an effort to burn the britches off the U.S. Army's most important Western administrator, tight-lipped Lieut. General John Lesesne DeWitt.
The case of the People v. DeWitt might presently reach Congress in the shape of a petition demanding redress. Months of controversy had climaxed in a set of high crime & misdemeanor charges.
Inferno. The plaintiff was chalk-haired, Roman-featured Federal Judge William Denman, 69-year-old chairman of World War I's U.S. Shipping Board. Jurist Denman accused General...
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