Mont Tennes
Named in Chicago newspaper reports of October 1916 as head of a syndicate selling race information through the General News Bureau, during Judge Landis's federal inquiry into gambling by Automatic telephone.
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- Biography on this page is limited to what the cited records state. Testimony and staff exhibits are labelled as such; they are not findings.
On the record
- 2 October 1916 — The Day Book reported that Judge Landis was to hear "Mont Tennes, Will Tennes," the president of the Chicago Telephone Co., and the head of the General News Bureau (The Day Book, 2 October 1916, image 2).
- 3 October 1916 — The paper reported that "Mont Tennes and syndicate, said to clear $75,000 a year through its General News bureau selling race-track dope," sold the service over Automatic phones to forty or more betting places (The Day Book, 3 October 1916, image 3).
- 4 October 1916 — The paper reported that "Mont Tennis' service, General News Bureau, was cut off" (The Day Book, 4 October 1916, image 3).
- 1950 — Thomas F. Kelly recalled that the General News Bureau was owned "by Annenberg, and Mr. Lynch or Mr. Tenis" and said he did not know for sure (Kefauver Part 5, 18 October 1950).
The three newspaper pages are filed as clippings: 2 October 1916, 3 October 1916 and 4 October 1916.
Everything on this page about Tennes is a 1916 newspaper’s reporting of a federal judge’s inquiry, with its own “said to” qualifiers, or a 1950 witness’s uncertain recollection. No role is set: no federal record filed here states one.