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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Campaigning. "I have probably heard The Sidewalks of New York one million times, all over the Atlantic seaboard, through the South, the Middle West and in Butte, Montana. ... I spoke at Oklahoma City on religious tolerance. Listeners in on the radio were particularly disturbed because of the noises in the hall which they believed were disorder. The fact is that a large part of the noise was created by an individual about halfway down the hall who continuously shouted: 'Pour it on 'em, Al, pour it on 'em. . . .' When I spoke in Louisville the heat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Politics and Sprigs | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

Lobbyists generally prey on Senators. They are fatter, more influential prey than Representatives. Last week Senators- five of them as a special investigating committee-began to prey on lobbyists. Witnesses winced and twitched uncomfortably as Senators Caraway, Walsh of Montana and Borah took the lead in uncovering their undercover work. The week's developments: Pottery. Fredrick L. Koch is a Tariff Commission expert on ceramics. During the Senate tariff hearings he prompted Senator King with questions to show that the industry was not as depressed as its leaders made out. For this the potters unsuccessfully attempted to have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Great Lobby Hunt | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

...wisecracks because his "Paprika, You're the Spice of My Life" is the only song hit he has written in three years. "That's the place for you," she says, upon learning that the Hall of Fame is devoted to "Busts." When he sings her his new "Montana Moon" she stares at him in still, awful malignance which will amuse anyone who enjoys sadistic spectacles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 21, 1929 | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

...these mills was on his bed, with his wrists slashed, dead. In Rockhill, S. C., the United Textile Workers held a conference, proclaimed "No Communists wanted here," announced their firm intention of organizing the whole southern textile industry under the A. F. of L. At Washington, Senator Wheeler of Montana introduced, at the request of President William Green of the A. F. of L., a resolution for a Federal investigation of the textile South...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Fresh Blood | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

...great furor of 1913 when, at the ringing protest of Woodrow Wilson, the Sugar Lobby was investigated with Lobbyist Martin Michael Mulhall of the National Manufacturer's Association as star witness. Potent and insidious methods of electing the '"proper" men were then revealed. Of that inquisition, Montana's grim Walsh was a member...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Shearer's Party | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

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