Word: mcleans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...issue." It had been bought by the Democratic Enquirer, its dominant and sole rival in the morning field. To the casual reader of the announcement the "purchase" might have been effected the day before. Actually it took place in 1911 when a representative of the late famed John R. McLean, founder and publisher of the Enquirer, paid $420,000 at private auction for the limping Commercial Tribune. For two decades the McLean interests operated both papers, strategically covering the adherents of both major parties. Also there was another, probably stronger motive for keeping the Commercial Tribune alive: its presence served...
Sued. Edward Beale McLean, fun-loving publisher of the Washington Post and the Cincinnati Enquirer, by Mrs. Evelyn Lucille Walsh McLean, his socialite wife, owner of the 44½-carat Hope diamond ($2,000,000): for separate maintenance ($10,000 a month) for herself & children (two sons, one daughter). Charge: nonsupport...
Nourishing Fat. The presence of fat compensates for a vitamin lack in the diet. Dr. Herbert McLean Evans and Dr. Samuel Lepkovsky of the University of California told Academicians that they had kept rats alive for months without vitamin B (necessary to prevent beriberi) by feeding them coconut oil, lard and cottonseed oil. Coconut oil was most effective, cottonseed oil the least...
...Post (McLean), 73,935 circulation...
...McLean, Va., Col. Herbert David pastured a valuable prize calf on his front lawn. A thief carried the calf away in the rumble seat of a motor car, sold it to a slaughter house for $12. Col. David found and bought it back in the nick of time...