Word: palmes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senate Public Lands Committee, investigating oil, discovered that Edward B. McLean, publisher of the Washington Post and the Cincinnati Enquirer, had had a private wire installed between his Washington office and his home at Palm Beach where he was wintering. Besides, it secured copies of about 100 telegrams sent by Mr. McLean to his aides in Washington or by them to him. It was a Brobdingnagian discovery...
...McLean was the man who ex-Secretary Fall had said lent him $100,000. McLean, through his attorney, A. Mitchell Palmer (first Alien Property Custodian and later Attorney General under Mr. Wilson), had confirmed this statement. Later, Senator Walsh of Montana had taken testimony from Mr. McLean at Palm Beach, in which the latter admitted that, although he had given Mr. Fall checks for $100,000, they had been returned uncashed. So Mr. McLean was indubitably connected with the oil scandals...
...telegrams made one thing clear- Mr. McLean wished to avoid being questioned in detail about his "loan" to Mr. Fall. There was also a curious phrase in one of the telegrams suggesting that the installation of the private wire to Palm Beach would afford "easy access to the White House." There was evidence that a telegraph operator at the White House had been employed after hours to operate the Washington end of the McLean wire...
...took Petey out of his cage and it lay in the palm of my hand, pecking feebly at my thumb as if to say: 'Master, I love you.' . . . My father, knowing something of medicine, tried to save Petey's life, but after hours of effort, some time after midnight, the little thing expired...
William J. Bryan: "Arthur Brisbane, Hearst editor, visited me at my Palm Beach home. Later he wrote as follows: 'To W. R. Hearst and his other visitor Mr. Bryan gave one large cocoanut, much bigger than his head; one grapefruit, almost as 'big as his head, both from his own trees. He has seven kinds of fruit on the place, including oranges and lemons, also alligator pears and guava...