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...Charles Forbes, convicted of fraud as Director of the Veterans Bureau. Socially its meeting places were a green house on K Street, near the Department of Justice, and a house on H Street, next to the old Shoreham Hotel which backed on the city home of Publisher Edward Beale McLean of the Washington Post, a big-hearted Harding friend...
...Vincent Richards, onetime National Amateur doubles champion, fatter than he used to be but stronger, still reputed to be the best volleyer in the world: the Southern Professional Tennis championship at Palm Beach, beating in the finals Paul Heston, private tennis instructor to Publisher Edward Beale McLean of the Washington Post...
...Toby McLean is a sports writer for a Manhattan daily. He is clever, well-liked, good-looking, but he has "the disease of tomorrow." So popular is he with his fellow-craftsmen that once when he is lying hors de combat in a Turkish bath in some alien city, his editor receives no less than four accounts of a single baseball game, all signed with Toby's name. When he is covering the Dempsey-Tunney fight in Philadelphia he meets Ann Vaughn, newspaperwoman; they fall in love and get married in short order...
Each Senator flayed the public character he disliked most. Senator Norris flayed Publisher Edward Beale McLean of the Washington Post. Senator Glass flayed Chairman Charles Edwin Mitchell of Manhattan's National City Bank. Senator Harrison flayed the Republican President. Senate attendance petered out until at the final meeting only eleven members were present. Senator James Thomas ("Tom Tom") Heflin rose primed to make a speech. To silence him Ohio's Senator Fess had the roll called. Newsmen in the gallery guffawed at the spectacle. Senator Heflin, sensitive to laughter, blurted a demand that the galleries be cleared...
...Those privately owned by individuals (about 150 in the U. S. Examples: William F. Kenny's St. Nicholas, Edward Beale McLean's Enquirer, Harry Ford Sinclair's St. Claire...