Cobb - Speaker Gambling Incident 1925-1926. 1933.

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Cobb - Speaker Gambling Incident 1925-1926. 1933.

This file contains articles and documents relating to the Cobb-Speaker gambling incident of September 25, 1919. Documents include the December 1926 testomonies of Cobb and Speaker by Judge Landis, resolution of January 1927, a handwritten five-page document and two telegrams between Landis and Speaker dated 1933. Speaker was requesting a meeting with Landis.

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