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Frank A. Vanderlip, retired New York banker, whose repetition of rumors about impropriety in the sale of The Marion Star got him summoned before the oil investigating committee and verbally chastised, has set about the business of unofficial investigation. He founded the Citizens Federal Research Bureau to delve deeply into the corruption of Washington. To make it useless for anyone to do him harm in hope of stopping his earnest probings, he took out a $1,000,000 policy in favor of his Bureau. Sard he: "I am not only shadowed constantly, but so are those who come...
...Frank A. Vanderlip, onetime President of the National City Bank of Manhattan: "Because of my voluntary activity in the oil investigations, I was requested by J. Horace Harding, a member of the board of the Continental Can Co., to resign as a director of that Company. I complied. Said I: 'The only thing I can say is that those who take that attitude will be very much ashamed later...
...Frank A. Vanderlip, who a few week's ago was harshly censured for the scandals which he repeated "as rumors and not as facts," has turned himself into a promotor of investigations. He went to Washington in carrying on his work, and there spoke forth in praise of the great Senate investigations, saying...
...Furthermore, Mr. Vanderlip, you said you were a friend of Mr. Harding...
...Chairman?Well, Mr. Vanderlip, the explanation you give as to the statements you made in reference to the newspaper at Marion was to protect the reputation of the dead man. You did not have any such purpose in mind in reference to the committee...