Word: montana
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senate, Mr. Walsh of Montana presented a resolution authorizing the Senate Judiciary Committee to investigate the Aluminum Co. and report to the Senate whether legal action against it was warranted. He contended in a four-hour speech that the company was an arrant monopoly and that the Department of Justice had not properly investigated it. The minority of the Judiciary Committee supported the Department of Justice and opposed the proposed investigation on the ground that it was unconstitutional, saying...
...city council of Providence, R. I., has for some time been looking for a design for a War Memorial. A sculptor named Pietro Montana submitted one. The committee liked it. Then Mrs. Whitney sent in hers, and the committee liked it better. Sculptor Montana was notified that his would not do after all. Mrs. Whitney was notified that hers would probably be accepted. But certain members of the Rhode Island chapter of the Institute of Architects inspected Mrs. Whitney's idea and found it "appalling." They notified the memorial committee that they thought that the monument...
Senator Burton Kendall Wheeler of Montana, Democrat, ticket mate of the late Progressive candidate for President, Senator LaFollette, was last week freed of a legal charge. A Justice of the District of Columbia Supreme Court quashed an indictment against...
...time when Mr. Wheeler was hot on the heels of Harry Micajah Daugherty, Attorney General, an indictment was brought against him for illegally accepting a fee from an oil man. The charge was tried and Wheeler was acquitted in Montana last spring...
...reasonable diligence in pursuing the facts. The situation is a double-barrelled gun in Senator Walsh's hands. If the Attorney-General was negligent, the Democrats have one more example of Republican corruption to strut before the people; if the case could not be prepared in a year, the Montana Senator will get the credit for proving the Statute of Limitations an unwise law. Whichever barrel of the gun goes off. Senator Walsh will kill a political bird...