Word: telegramming
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...trained, he could hardly refuse an opportunity for such service. President Coolidge had since March 10, an empty seat in his Cabinet. He offered it to William S. Kenyon of Iowa. Judge of the Eighth U. S. District Court. Judge Kenyon said, "Thank you, no." The same day a telegram sped across the country to San Francisco. Curtis D. Wilbur, California's Chief Justice, said "Thank...
...perhaps unwelcome, has come to two of the naval petroleum reserves?Teapot Dome and Elk Hills, immortally linked with Harry F. Sinclair and Edward L. Doheny. These reserves may well be envious of their younger brother, reserve No. 4, which is just about to be explored. Last week a telegram reached the Department of the Interior. It stated that Dr. Philip S. Smith of the Geological Survey had just left Nenana, on the Alaskan Railway, with a dozen men and 140 Eskimo dogs, going out into the unknown...
...salary of $1 a year. McLean's connection with the oil scandal is that he gave tentative assent to Mr. Fall's attempt to make the investigating committee believe that a newspaper publisher, not an oil magnate, had lent him $100,000. ¶ The publication of a telegram from Mr. Doheny to .Senator Walsh, investigator, saying "Merry Christmas from Mrs. Doheny and me to you and yours" and asking whether the Senator would take part with him in an oil venture in Montana. The telegram was sent before it was known that Mr. Doheny had lent...
...speech by Senator Heflin in which he inferred that "the principal" referred to in one of the telegrams sent by one of McLean's employees was President Coolidge. The telegram said: "Saw principal, delivered message. He says greatly appreciate and sends regards to you and Mrs. McLean. There will be no rocking of boat and no resignations. He expects reaction from unwarranted political attacks. Bennet." ¶ The publication of two telegrams sent by President Coolidge to Mr. McLean at Palm Beach. One said: "Prescott is away. Advise Slemp with whom I shall confer. Acknowledge." According to announcement from...
...Testimony by the man who had written the telegram referring to "principal" that "principal" referred to Senator Curtis, Republican Whip. Senator Curtis denied it. The White House declared that any conversation which the President had with the writer of the telegram (the editor of the Washington Post) must have been casual, since Mr. Bennet has not conferred with the President. Mr. Bennet himself said the remarks about "no rocking the boat" and "no resignations" were...