Word: mcleane
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...front pages of the press, the subject of discussion was the President's World Court proposal, the suggestion that it might split the Republican Party. Interspersed with this matter were accounts of the President's vacationing in Florida?his trips aboard the Pioneer (the houseboat of Edward B. McLean), his foursomes at golf with Mr. McLean, Albert D. Lasker (the then Chairman of the Shipping Board), and Charles G. Dawes (the former Director of the Budget). Before the vacation was over, Harry M. Daugherty, Attorney General, caused...
Publishers have always been the friends of Presidents and Presidential nominees. Consider such publishers as lately have been the friends of statesmen−Colonel George Harvey−Edward Beale McLean. Not such a one is Charles Dana Gibson. In the first place Life differs in the seriousness of its pretentions from the North American Review and The Washington Post. Not that Life is out of politics, because it presumes to smile at it. Life knows politics and takes part in it. Life has played its part in many fields. The least of these may be anti-vivisectionism, the greatest...
Colonel George Harvey has made his first editorial appearance under the banner of Edward B. McLean. In his new capacity as "editorial director" (TiME, June 2) of The Washington Post, he filled four large columns with the product of his pen-a product not so virulent as it was four years ago, but not without piquancy. His chief topic was the Japanese exclusion feature of the Immigration Act. Said he: "Responsibility for the faux pas that played hob with the pleasant relationship with Japan and the United States rests in about equal proportions upon the Secretary of State, the Chairman...
These facts are vouched for by no less a person than Edward Beale McLean, great and good friend of ex-Secretary Albert Bacon Fall. Mr. Fall contributed much toward making Mr. McLean's name known the country over. Mr. McLean evidently intends that his reputation shall not be allowed to exceed Colonel Harvey...
...McLean's encomium of the former Ambassador to Great Britain was written in announcing the fact that Mr. Harvey would become "editorial director" of The Washington Post, one of Mr. McLean's properties...