The Alien Property Custodian Palmer connects the money to purchase the Washington Times to Germans and brewing interests. Palmer would later become Attorney General, have his house fire-bombed and lead the Red Scares of 1919. Franklin Roosevelt remains extremely sick with pneumonia.

Source: “How the Front Pages of Prominent Newspapers ‘Expressed Interest in the Ownership of the Washington Times’ Yesterday,” The Washington Herald, Washington, District of Columbia, September 21, 1918. Page 1, Column 3.