Word: lent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...McLean was the man who ex-Secretary Fall had said lent him $100,000. McLean, through his attorney, A. Mitchell Palmer (first Alien Property Custodian and later Attorney General under Mr. Wilson), had confirmed this statement. Later, Senator Walsh of Montana had taken testimony from Mr. McLean at Palm Beach, in which the latter admitted that, although he had given Mr. Fall checks for $100,000, they had been returned uncashed. So Mr. McLean was indubitably connected with the oil scandals...
...innovations while holding that post was a method of Americanizing aliens. When he granted citizenship he held a reception, with music, speeches, refreshments. He made the newly-fledged, exalted citizens feel important. After only two years he was elevated to the Supreme Court, where his rugged personality lent a certain tonic atmosphere. He was impatient of refinement of argument, preferring by nature a certain blunt honesty of the intellect. He was one of the Justices who dissented when the Child Labor Law was first held unconstitutional. He broke the tradition of the Supreme Court that its members should make...
...there any fraud or bribery in the making of the leases? The evidence indicates as regards Naval Reserve No. 1 (Elk Hills, Calif.), Mr. Doheny lent Mr. Fall $100,000 about one year before the final contract with the Doheny interests was drawn (TIME, Feb. 4). As regards Naval Reserve No. 3 (Teapot Dome), Mr. Sinclair lent Mr. Fall $25,000 and employed him some two years after the Reserve was leased to Mr. Sinclair, and three or four months after Mr. Fall had left the Cabinet...
...Edward L. Doheny, head of the Mexican Petroleum Corporation, for 30 years a personal friend of Fall, according to his admission, lent Secretary Fall $100,000 in cash on an unsecured demand note bearing no interest...
Last week Mr. Doheny came forward and told (see above) that he had lent $100,000 to Mr. Fall, and Colonel Zevely told of the later loan of $25,000 in bonds from Sinclair...