Word: secretively
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...evidence" that Senators Borah, LaFollette, Norris and Heflin had been paid, or even offered one cent. The Mexican Government pronounced Mr. Hearst's documents total forgeries. The Senate Committee proceeded therefore to try to find out who did the forging and why. To this end U. S. Secret Service men were called in. The investigators also sought evidence of the messages and money supposed to have been telegraphed from Mexico to Consul General Elias. Such evidence, to prove the validity of Hearst-published documents, was lacking. Investigation continued. Publisher Hearst's Washington Herald brazenly stated: "The least unfortunate...
What might be portended by a secret meeting, in Washington, D. C., of the following: James Wolcott Wadsworth, onetime (1915-27) U. S. Senator from New York; Edward Stephen Harkness, Manhattan philanthropist, and Charles Hamilton Sabin, Manhattan banker; Sidney Trowbridge Miller, Detroit lawyer-philanthropist; Pierre Samuel du Pont, Delaware industrialist-educator; Benedict Crowell, Cleveland engineer; Senators Walter Evens Edge of New Jersey and William Cabell Bruce of Maryland; Representative John Charles Linthicum of Maryland; and many another...
Among the others was Capt. William H. Stayton of Baltimore, active chief of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment. That was what the secret meeting last week, at Mr. Wadsworth's house, portended. All those present were "Wets." They called themselves the Moderation League, Inc. They would not tell precisely what they talked about. All they would say was that the Moderation League Inc., without superseding Captain Stayton's A. A. P. A., would promote a national non-partisan movement to clarify Prohibition's place in 1928 election platforms...
...patrol the state capitol and prevent "all insurrectionary meetings," following the tactics of onetime Governor Jack C. Walton, who was impeached in 1923. At dead of night, speaker E. P. Hill of the House of Representatives and H. Thomas Knight, another anti-Johnston agitator, summoned their colleagues to secret conclave in the Huckins Hotel. In pajamas, night-shirts, bathrobes and galluses, without chairs enought to go around,† the sleepy statesmen preferred charges against Governor Johnston, including incompetency, conspiracy to defraud, improper appointments, illegal use of state funds. They also framed charges to impeach Chief Justice Frederick P. Branson...
...series as impudent but unskilled forgeries and that they joked about them. . . . It is pointed out that the Spanish of the documents is faulty, that the Hearst forces changed the date of one dispatch three times in three consecutive editions, and that no officials of any government which disburses secret funds for corrupt purposes are so stupid as to commit anything to paper. . . . The facts are set forth here for purposes of historical record...