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...Harry Micajah Daugherty, then Attorney General, had gone to visit President Harding at the White House. In his apartment at the Wardman Park Hotel, his private secretary heard a shot and a crash. Jesse Smith, a diabetes sufferer, Mr. Daugherty's man Friday, who had a desk but no official position in the Department of Justice, was found dead in the next room. A pistol lay on the floor beside him. He was pronounced a suicide. He had enjoyed life; why had he left it? Washington people said that ill health and imminent scandal had burdened his mind...
...wardrobe (all in petite sizes) impeccable to the finest pinpoint; skins of wild Colorado animals (to establish beyond peradventure her origin); riding habits (she is an expert horsewoman) ; perhaps a ravishing orange skin-tight swimming costume (it was seen many a time last summer in the tank of the Wardman Park Hotel, Washington...
...Attorney General and his department received a notice to vacate their quarters. The Wardman Co., owners of the building in which the Department of Justice is housed,*announced that the Government is now paying $75,000 a year rent on the building whereas they could obtain $165,000 by converting it into a store and office building...
...some time the Department of Justice has had no lease. The The eviction notice calls for vacating the premises in 30 days. If the Wardman Co. exercises its legal prerogatives, the Department of Justice may soon be in the street...
...hotel is being built by H. Wardman of Washington; it will cost $2,000,000 and be the only hotel in England to have a bath with each of its 400 rooms...