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f Two-Minute Biographies
Where-Froms of Those Prin
cipals Now in Washington
Spotlight
SEN. THOMAS J. WALSH
Thomas -James Walsh, from
Montana, was bom at Two
Rivers, Wis., June 12, 1859. He
was educated in the, public
schools and graduated from the
University of Wisconsin. During
his early manhood he was a
school-teacher. He located in
Helena, Mont., as a lawyer in
1890, and immediately became
identified with the Democratic
organization. He ran for Con
gress in 1906 and for the United
States Senate in 1910. He was
elected to the Senate in 1912 and
re-elected in 1918. He has a
national reputation as a thor
oughly grounded lawyer and is
an authority on the United States
Constitution. He is noted for
his initiative and perseverance
and never starts anything he
thinks he can’t finish. He is ac
knowledged to be chiefly respon
sible for the progress of the Tea
pot Dome scandal inquiry. He
is respected by all his colleagues
in Congress and admired by
many. Mr. Walsh is a widower
and a Catholic. He wears a
stubby mustache, stiff bosomed
white shirt and suspenders.
EDWARD B. M’LEAN
Edward Beale M’Lean is the
owner of the- Washington Post
and Cincinnati Enquirer which he
inherited from his father. He is
43 years old. Was outside pale
of Washington’s inner political
society until President Harding
took office when he became the
President’s most intimate Wash
ington friend. He is free and
easy in manner and is fond of
sports. He lives in a palace in
Washington that resembles a
public library. When the Tea
pot Dome scandal broke he ad
mitted that he had loaned Albert
B. Fall $100,000, but “remem
bered” later that he did NOT
loan Fall the $100,000. He mar
ried Evelyn Walsh, daughter of
Thomas J. Walsh, mining mag
nate.
HARRY M. DAUGHERTY
Harry Micajah Daugherty,
U. S. Attorney-General, was bora
at Washington Court House,
Ohio, on January 26, 1860. He
had a High School education and
was graduated from the Uni
versity of Michigan with the de
gree of LL.B., in 1881.
He began the practice of law
in his native town and moved to
Columbus, Ohio, in 1893. He
. built up one of the largest prac
tices in the State. Always active
in politics, but the only office he
held was a member of the State
Legislature, 1890-1894. He di
rected President Harding’s pri
mary campaign for President in
1920. Lost his own State. He
predicted that Harding would be
nominated by a little party of
bosses in a smoke-filled hotel
room when 1920 Chicago Con
vention reached a deadlock. His
prediction was fulfilled. He was
made Attorney-General of the
United States on March 4, 1921.
JAe aided in getting Morse out of
/the Penitentiary for a fee. He
is married and a Methodist.
(Note: Micajah is a Hebrew
word and means “who is like Je
hovah.”)
HARRY F. SINCLAIR
Harry Ford Sinclair, petroleum
magnate, was born at'Wheeling,
West Virginia, on July 6, 1876.
Moved to Kansas with his parents
when a baby. He was educated
in the public schools of Inde
pendence, Kansas, and gr aduated J
from the School of Pharmacy, I
University of Kansas in 1898. He
clerked in his father’s store in In
[enoe. and in 1901 got into
-.he oil business on the ground
floor when the oil boom started
in Kansas and Oklahoma. He dis
played a genius for organiza
tion and exploitation of oil prop
erties. He consolidated all of
his properties into the Sinclair
Consolidated Oil Corporation in
1919. He served as a “dollar a
year man” in Washington during
the war. He moved to New York
after amassing a huge fortune
and bought a racing stable. He
developed Zev and built up the
most profitable establishment on
the turf. His oil interests are
now international. He is mar
ried and is an Episcopalian. His
home is at Great Neck, L. I.
EDWARD L. DOHENY
Edward Laurence Doheny, pe
troleum magnate, was born at
Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, on Au
gust 10, 1856. He was gradu
ated at the Fond du Lac Highj
School in 1872. Went West and '
prospected for .gold and silver in
the mountains and in the plains
for twenty years with indifferent
success. Met Albert B. Fall pros
pecting in the Southwest in the
’80s and got into the oil business
in 1892. He started on the road
to fortune by discovering oil
wells in California. He was a pi
oneer in exploration of the of
ficials of the Tampico district of
Mexico and noted for his ability
to pick men who could put ex
ploration of the oil fields in the
Tampico district under the lime
light, but he was a diffident
driver in business. He was put
in nomination for Vice President
of the United States at the Dem
ocratic Convention in San Fran
cisco in 1920, but the vote was
lost in confusion. He lives in a
palace in Los Angeles.
ALBERT B. FALL
Albert Bacon Fall was born at
Frankfort, Ky., on November,
1861. Self-educated with some
assistance from country schools.
He went to the Southwest as a
boy and taught school and also
studied daw. He was admitted to
practice in 1889. He worked as
cowboy, farm hand, prospector
and miner in Texas and New
Mexico. He located in the latter
State while it was a territory.
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If you don’t know—get ac
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FUDGE
AND
PENOCHI
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under the ownership and at the
stand of James Bros.
1519 BOARDWALK
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Served as a member of the New
Mexico Legislature, as a Justice
of the New Mexico Supreme
Court and Attorney-General of
'New Mexico. Invested his first
savings in a New Mexico ranch
and in mining lands and gradu
ally enlarged his holdings. He
was elected to the United States
Senate in 1912 for a term expir
ing in 1913 and was re-elected
1913 and 1919.
He resigned from the Senate
in 1921 to become Secretary of
the Interior in President Hard
ing’s Cabinet.
SMITH & BECK
have reopened their
DRUG STORE
at
Weymouth and Ventnor
Aves.
(Ventnor Theatre Bldg.)
A FRESH AND
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and am now associated with SIX FACTORIES.
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