Word: walsh
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Walsh. Thomas and James are his first names, reversing the order of the names of his embarrassing colleague in the Senate, James Thomas Heflin. Another distinction between these two-who are the Senate's most complete opposites except for the label on their politics-is that Senator Walsh, from rocky Montana, is the outstanding Roman Catholic Senator, while, as everyone knows, Senator Heflin from swampy Alabama mortally hates and fears the Roman Pope...
...Senator Walsh has a brain, too; a patient, unbending, inexorable instrument in which he takes a chill delight when he brings it to bear on an Oil Scandal or a Power Probe. Unbending, unemotional, he has been called unique: "an Irishman without a sense of humor." Not until the past few years has he shown ambition nor, until very recently, even sufficient self-consciousness to trim up his Montaneering mustache of iron grey...
...Charles Curtis, of Kansas; Charles G. Dawes, of Illinois; Herbert Hoover, of California; Frank O. Lowden, of Illinois; Frank B. Willis of Ohio. The Democrats include: A. Victor Donahey, of Ohio; James A. Reed, of Missouri; Albert C. Ritchie, of Maryland; Alfred E. Smith, of New York; Thomas J. Walsh, of Montana...
Score, Harvard 18 1-2, Yale 3 1-2, Goals, Clark 9, White 7, Burnett 2, Cotton, Phipps 2, Baldwin 2. Fouls, Harvard, Yale, Time, Four Chukkers of 7 1-2 minutes each. Referee, J. Walsh, Timer, J. T. Norton...
...more immediate interest than the "power trust" now is the elaborate and expensive "lobby" it maintained in Washington to escape a Senatorial inquisition. Senator Caraway of Arkansas had already framed a bill requiring all lobbyists to register upon arrival and state their business. Senator Walsh of Massachusetts introduced another such measure last week and the defeated Inquisitors determined to look back into the power lobby to see just who did kill Cock Robin...