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...Oklahoman Hurley furnished a new, intimate glimpse of President Roosevelt in his last days. In March 1945, Hurley testified, he visited Roosevelt to complain of the still-secret concessions made to Russia at Yalta: "... I went to the White House . . . with my ears back and my teeth skinned, to have a fight about what had been done. When the President reached up that fine, firm, strong hand of his to shake hands with me, what I found in my hands was a very loose bag of bones...
More than such a clear-cut reward, the Oklahoman's reporters treasured a note sent by one of the redeemed-property owners to Reporter Van Dyke. "Congratulations on your nerve and efforts to expose this filthy tax resale. Thank God for a real heman, fair and honest...
...elderly couple have their property back for $55 plus $3.13 "expenses," if only the Oklakoman (circ. 143,894) wouldn't print his name. "This sort of thing happens every day," Garrett protested. "It's not my fault the sheriff didn't serve them notice." The Oklahoman printed Garrett's name, then joined forces with the Times to search through county records to see if what Garrett said was true. They found that several $3,000 houses had been knocked down at tax sales for around $2.50 each. Said a Times editorial: "It Doesn't Smell...
Mystery Man. The more the Oklahoman and Times dug, the worse it smelled. The Oklahoman's court reporter, Ray Parr, teamed up with Van Dyke and Timesman Henry Burchfiel to sift through a 20-year mountain of records. They soon noticed that a "Ted Smith" had bought much of the tax-sale land, though nobody in town knew any real-estate man named Ted Smith. When the reporters checked up on notaries who had witnessed "Ted Smith's" signature, they flushed a well-to-do printing-company executive named W. C. Bonney. He admitted he had used...
Nine Times and Oklahoman reporters combed through 360,000 names on the tax rolls to find out how much property Vahlberg owned. They discovered 183 lots in his name and more owned by his relatives. At recent tax sales, Vahlberg had bought 116 lots for sums ranging from a few cents...