Word: shearer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Moses, another important Hooverizer, "urged me to make a big navy speech in Boston during the Hoover campaign to fool the simple Irish," said Shearer. This was undenied...
Meantime the Senate continued its examination of the roaring, boasting, accusing cause of the present lobby excitements -William Baldwin Shearer, "AMERICAN, CHRISTIAN, PROTESTANT, NATIONALIST," the high-powered propagandist who is suing the Bethlehem, American Brown Boveri and Newport News shipbuilding companies for $257,655 back pay for alleged services in breaking up the naval arms conference at Geneva in 1927 and boosting the Jones-White Act (ship subsidies) last year (TIME, Sept. 2 et seq.}. Company officials had testified they did hire Shearer, in admitted folly. Now the Senators had to hear Shearer. Between his gusts of anger...
Charles Michael Schwab, chairman of Bethlehem Steel Corp.. was Shearer's prize exhibit. Quizzed about Shearer on the stand last month, Mr. Schwab had said: "So far as I know I never saw him. ... I never heard of it [Shearer's employment by Bethlehem]." Now Shearer said: "I have met Mr. Schwab on a number of occasions. 'The Star of Bethlehem' himself was the first to suggest that his company might employ me." He said he had conversed with Mr. Schwab in November 1926, at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Manhattan...
Frank Billings Kellogg, Coolidge Secretary of State, was dragged in. Said Shearer: "'Nervous Nellie' Kellogg called the Bethlehem crowd on the mat and told them that the $15,000,000 war profiteering case against their company would be pressed unless I was fired...
Senator Allen, publicity chief of the Hoover campaign, "told me I ought to go out and make Hoover campaign speeches," revealed Shearer. Retorted the Senator: "I wanted to get rid of you around publicity headquarters...