Word: mcleane
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senate Public Lands Committee, investigating oil, discovered that Edward B. McLean, publisher of the Washington Post and the Cincinnati Enquirer, had had a private wire installed between his Washington office and his home at Palm Beach where he was wintering. Besides, it secured copies of about 100 telegrams sent by Mr. McLean to his aides in Washington or by them to him. It was a Brobdingnagian discovery...
...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...
Besides, the Senate Committee had secured some delightful messages. A few of them were in code-apparently in two or more codes; they mentioned several Senators and Francis H. McAdoo (son of William G.), A. Mitchell Palmer, Wilton J. Lambert (all attorneys for Mr. McLean), J. W. Zevely (counsel for Mr. Sinclair). It was very interesting. Mr. McLean received more publicity than has been his lot in many moons...
...telegrams made one thing clear- Mr. McLean wished to avoid being questioned in detail about his "loan" to Mr. Fall. There was also a curious phrase in one of the telegrams suggesting that the installation of the private wire to Palm Beach would afford "easy access to the White House." There was evidence that a telegraph operator at the White House had been employed after hours to operate the Washington end of the McLean wire...
Then The New York World discovered that four of the messages were in a code used by the Department of Justice, or at least a code formerly so used. The deciphered messages did not reveal much except what was already known-that McLean's employees were keeping him informed on the progress of the oil investigation, and sending him tips as to whether or not he would be required to testify. In one of the telegrams Wm. J. Burns, Chief of the Secret Service, was mentioned, thereby adding his name to the list of those implicated...