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...Senator Walsh's filibuster against the Interior appropriation bill stopped when his Glacier National Park bower, and other residential and church lands in national parks, were safeguarded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: House & Senate | 3/11/1929 | See Source »

...setting thus described by him to the Senate, grim-visaged Senator Thomas J. Walsh has a bower, a summer-home on the northeastern end of Lake McDonald in Glacier National Park, Montana. He owns two-thirds of an acre with a 150-foot lake frontage, purchased from the holder of the original land patent before the park was created in 1910. Last week the grey Walsh mustache bristled more ferociously than ever as he did legislative battle in defense of his summer hearthstone and of a governmental principle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Walsh's Bower | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

Like a Broadway musical show, the scenes were swift and elaborate. The first was an Alpine rock that looked on a glinting glacier. The second was a prima donna's apartment in a modern Swiss hotel. Then came a corridor of a Parisian hotel, intermission, the Swiss hotel again, the glacier, the balcony of still another hotel set for dining and dancing to a radio's loudspeaker, a street in the middle of the town, a railroad terminal with real trains, the terminal exit with a real automobile, the terminal's tracks again-and then the station...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Valedictory | 1/28/1929 | See Source »

...hero, a blackface, jazz-band comedian. He wanted the violin which belonged to Danielle, a famed virtuoso, wanted it more than any of the women who wanted him, and he stole it. Anita, meanwhile, a fattish prima donna, went from Max, the queasy composer who took his inspiration glacier-gazing, to Daniello, back to Max again. She it was, unwittingly, who escaped with the stolen violin concealed in her banjo case. But Jonny followed her to Switzerland for it, jumped in her window one morning, recovered it and had it for his jazz until Daniello recognized its tone over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Valedictory | 1/28/1929 | See Source »

...third ship, the Chelsea, joins the flotilla, which then proceeds 2,300 miles across the Southern Ocean to the Ross Sea and the Bay of Whales. The ships will remain long enough to see the expedition established in the ice village, the great wireless mast grounded in the glacier, then withdraw for ten months to escape the six months' night which is the Antarctic winter. In the autumn of 1929 they will return to pick up the expedition, carry it back to the U. S. early...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Byrd's Plans | 8/20/1928 | See Source »

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