Word: inquisitor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Inquisitor Walsh of Montana (Committee on Public Lands) traced remnant tentacles of the Oil Scandals...
Power. After long debate, despite anxious protests from potent lobbyists, the Committee on Interstate Commerce voted that an inquisitor and four aides should proceed, as urged by Inquisitor Walsh, to explore the character and practices of light, gas and power corporations doing interstate business or controlled by holding corporations in other states. Political as well as financial practices were in Inquisitor Walsh's mind, "to determine whether these have been other Insulls." Many a State's attitude toward the impending Power Probe was voiced by Governor Alvin Victor Donahey of Ohio, who said: "The people of Ohio will...
...like sort is the problem that has long confronted the Federal courts and square-jawed Thomas James Walsh, Arch-inquisitor of the Senate Committee on Public Lands, in the strange transactions of three oil companies remotely connected with the Oil Scandals. The ultimate object of reviewing these transactions is to expose the supposed source of the Liberty Bonds which Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair is known to have given Albert Bacon Fall, defamed Secretary of the Interior who leased Teapot Dome to Sinclair. But the immediate motive, when Inquistor Walsh renewed his inquiries last week, seemed compounded as much of professional...
Vare Case No. 2. The renowned election of Senator-suspect Vare of Pennsylvania came up for Senate action not only through the labors of Inquisitor Reed of Missouri, but, also through the protest of William Bauchop Wilson, the Democrat whom Mr. Vare's votes defeated. Mr. Wilson, onetime (1913-21) Secretary of Labor, charged Mr. Vare & friends with corruption and false returns. Mr. Wilson laid his case before the Senate's regular Committee on Privileges & Elections and requested a recount of the Vare-Wilson votes. Last week, dividing on strictly party lines, the Committee voted 8 to 6 to dismiss...
...According to a survey lately published at Harvard University, only 9.06% of the total kilowatt hours of power generated in 1926, was transmitted across State lines. But Inquisitor Walsh would investigate intrastate companies owned by interstate holding companies...