Word: walsh
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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...
...this Col. Stewart explained last week to Inquisitor Walsh. Col. Stewart was patient, considering his own full-blooded pique at being peremptorily summoned from business-mixed-with-pleasure in Havana. But patience turned to indignation, blandness boiled into wrath, when Senator Walsh wondered what such an accommodating purchaser might have known or felt or perhaps shared privately from the cunning middleman's profit...
...final marker was chalked up by Hallowell, who shared with Batchelder the honors of the day. HARVARD 1931 ST. JOHN'S Everett, Jewell, l.w. w., Delaney Garrison, Putnam, Gilntor, c c., Trayers Watts, Hallowell, r.w. l.w., Robbitaile, Kerr Ogden, McGregor, l.d. r.d. Walsh, Bridgeham Batchelder, Richardson, r.d. l.d., Corkery, Conners Gammack, Fllis. g g., Lynch...