Word: senatore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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In a 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...
The U. S. parks contain a total of 92,000 acres of private land, valued at $5,810,261. Senator Walsh and his colleague, Senator Wheeler, persuaded the Senate to amend the appropriation bill so as to prevent wholesale condemnation of these lands without discrimination between commercial projects and private...
Observers noticed that, as is usually the case with Navy bills, the opposition was mostly composed of hinterlanders like Senator Norris.
Senator Reed's amendment (adopted) endorsed the idea of some new freedom-of-the-seas treaties, to be negotiated before the next naval disarmament conference (1931).
Senator James Thomas ("Tom Tom") Heflin of Alabama, who mortally hates and fears the Roman" Pope, "obtained his annual quota of publicity and ridicule by pretending again that the flag flown on Navy ships during religious services is a Popish flag, and offering an amendment to prohibit any flag flying...