Word: palmed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Secretary to the President, was called before the 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...
Florenz Ziegfeld: "From Palm Beach went forth a report that I am planning to write the story of my life from my days as manager of Sandow the strong man, down to the present. A headline in the Daily News (Manhattan) : 'Ziegfeld will tell...
John F. Hylan, Mayor of New York: "At Palm Beach, my wife and I gave a dinner in honor of William Randolph Hearst. I made a short speech. Said I: 'I consider William Randolph Hearst the greatest living American...
...girl of shop and street, their trials, their loves. If his play possesses the same quality of joy and sorrow that is shown in his poetry, it should run forever, and even if he forgets the popular accents of New York on the sands of Palm Beach, he cannot lose there his wistful, shy boys and girls who drift through his pages...
Thereafter Senator Walsh of Montana went to Palm Beach and examined Mr. McLean. McLean then admitted that he had given Fall some checks but that in two or three days they were returned uncashed, Fall saying that he had obtained the necessary money elsewhere. Senator Walsh then wrote Mr. Fall about McLean's testimony, and Fall answered: "McLean told the truth." Both Fall and McLean were last week ill in the South...