AMERICAN OIL SCANDALS
—fc— CRITICISM OF HOOVER INVESTIGATOR’S IMPLICATION DERELICTION OF DUTY. limited Press Association—By Electric lelegnipi Copyiight.) WASHINGTON, June 17. Senator Walsh, investigator of the oil .scandals., commenting to-da.}- on President Hoover’s address at the unveiling of the Harding Memorial, inferentialiy charged the President with dereliction of duty when as a member of the Harding Cabinet lie did not expose the “crookedness” in the existing high official circlets. Mr. Walsh drew attention to Mr. Hoover’s assertion that betrayal by his friends was a contributing cause to the former President’s death and declared it was injudicious for the President to make such disclosures now.
Mr. Hoover made the speech to which Mr. Walsh refers when he dedicated a memorial to the former President, Air. Warren Harding, at Marion, •Ohio. Mr.' Hoover referred to the late President as a kindly and generous. spirit and recalled how, during the scandals of Mr. Harding’s Administration, ho was betrayed by a few men whom he trusted. The same men betrayed their country. “That was the tragedy of Warren Harding’s life,” said Air. Hoover.
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Hawera Star, Volume LI, 19 June 1931, Page 5
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