Word: mcleane
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bold President Harding attended a showing of the Dempsey-Carpentier fight film at the home of Publisher Edward B. ("Ned") McLean of the Washington Post. "Of course, we all knew that the law had been broken in the transportation of the film to Washington. It was amusing to see how every one who was there joined the purity squad when the news leaked shown." out that the film had been shown...
...Charles R. Forbes, head of the Veterans' Bureau (see p. 18), described a poker party held in the White House library in 1921. The players were President Harding, Will H. Hays, Albert Lasker (shipping board chairman), Harry Daugherty (Attorney General), Harry S. New (Postmaster General), Edward B. ("Ned") McLean (publisher of the Washington Post) and Mrs. McLean...
...During the game," said Col. Forbes, "Ned McLean announced that Jack Johnson, the prize fighter, was to be discharged from the Federal penitentiary at Leavenworth, and either Ned or Albert Lasker exclaimed, 'Why, his old mother used to work for me and he has a fine of $1000 hanging over him and can't pay it.' Ned McLean said: 'Albert, I'll give $500 and you give $500 and we will pay his fine.' The President spoke up: 'Don't let that worry you: I'll remit the fine,' and the game went...
...messages between a Mr. & Mrs. Duckstein who were respectively confidential secretaries to Publisher Edward B. McLean of the Washington Post and "Villain" Burns, read as follows: "Cravingly in Dxewonx resurge lodgement ailment fastidious tuck skewered suckled scrage emerse vithouse punctators gob. . . ." This was translated: "According to Lambert's instructions the papers have been put in the safe deposit box belonging to you & Frazer in the Commercial Bank...
...Nathan Allen Cobb, Bowdoin '26, of Portland, Me.; Richard Hinckley Field '26, of Phillips, Me.; Solomon Fishman, College of the City of New York '26, of New York; Alger Hiss, Johns Hopkins University '26, of Baltimore, Md.; David Miller, University of Texas '26, of Mineral Wells, Texas; Edward Cockrain McLean, Williams '24, of Hoosick Falls, N. Y.; Leon Pressman, Cornell '26, of Brooklyn, N. Y.; Howard Heath Rapp '26, of Broomall, Pa.; Harry Shulsky, New York University '26, of New York; Bernard Soman '26, of Brooklyn, N. Y.; Jule Elias Stocker '26, of Detroit, Mich.; John Joseph Verdon, Holy Cross...