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HARVARD GEORGETOWN Burns, c.f. 2b., smith Chase, 2b. c.f., McCarthy Donaghy, s.s. s.s., Dunn Lord, e. 3b., O'Neil Prior, 1h. 1b., Graham Hardie, i.f. i.f., Duplin Nugent, 3b. r.f., McLean Todd or Jones, r.f. c., Donovan Cutts or Howard, p. p., Fogarty or Gillespie...
...Kentucky Derby but not the people who last week stood jammed along the fences of the Pimlico track in Maryland while two horses moved round the turn into the stretch, with the little jockeys hunched forward and moving their legs like frogs swimming-Ambrose on Edward Beale. McLean's Toro, Workman on Harry Payne Whitney's Victorian. Noses together, so close the jockeys could have whispered to each other, the humping horses moved toward the wire; nobody could tell which had won the $61,000 stake until a Number 7, Victorian's number, went...
Soon after President Harding was inaugurated, Sinclair was a frequent visitor in Washington, D. C. He knew Edward Beale ("Ned") McLean, sportsman-publisher of the Washington Post, and Harry Micajah Daugherty, the U. S. Attorney-General. He cultivated Albert-Bacon Fall, whom he had known only casually as a Senator from New Mexico, but who now, in 1921, was Secretary of the Interior. Sinclair began to be invited to stay at the White House...
After receiving the Elk Hills lease, Oilman Doheny loaned Fall $100,000 without security. Publisher McLean "went down the line" (i. e., acted as a blind) for this friendly transaction...
...Fall also talked about his famed lie of 1923-his letter to the Senate saying that Publisher McLean and not Oilman Doheny had "loaned" him $100,000. He named Senator Reed Smoot, onetime Senator Irvine L. Lenroot and a Harding Cabinet Member as the persons who had advised him to write the lying letter. Senators Smoot and Lenroot were quick to deny having anything to do with the letter...