Word: mcleans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...investigating committee and asked what relations he had with Edward B. Mc-Lean, ex-Secretary Fall, Sinclair or Doheny. The last two he had never met or communicated with. During the first two weeks in January while the Secretary was at Palm Beach on vacation, he had encountered Mr. McLean on the golf course. Later he had called on the McLeans and had met Mr. Fall who was visiting them. They had talked about the Volstead Act, golf, the weather, the Mellon tax plan. Teapot Dome, not then such a notorious episode, had been only touched on. ¶ Washington bankers...
...Washington Post and Cincinnati Enquirer, total circulation 134,900 daily; 146,265 Sunday. These are owned or controlled by Edward B. McLean, arch friend of President Harding...
...Rumors got about that a $1,000,000 slush fund had been organized by oil men against the investigation. Edward B. McLean, publisher of The Washington Post, was summoned to testify on the subject...
...investigation developed that about the time of the oil leases, Mr. Fall had suddenly acquired considerable sums of money. Mr. Fall testified, not under oath, that he had borrowed '$100,000 from Edward B. McLean, Washington newspaper publisher, and that he had never received from Doheny or Sinclair "'one cent on account of any oil lease or upon any account whatsoever." Then Mr. McLean told that he had given Secretary Fall $100,000 in checks, which in a few days had been returned uncashed. This was followed immediately by Archibald Roosevelt's resignation from one of the Sinclair Oil Companies...
...this money from the Hon. Edward B. McLean of Washington, and I took it with me in cash.' He did not do that. Why did he say that...