Word: walsh
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Austin--Patterson, Walsh v. Scott--Blauvelt, Eldridge...
Work Done. The U. S. Senators: ¶ Debated the resolution by Senator Walsh of Montana to investigate public utility corporations, their profits & policies (TIME, Dec. 26); voted 40 to 36 to send it to the Committee on Interstate Commerce...
...Chairman Norris (Nebraska) of the Judiciary Committee introduced (through Senator Walsh of Montana) his ancient proposal to amend the Constitution so that the President of the U. S. would be inaugurated on the 15th, and Senators and Representatives take their seats on the 2nd of the January following the November of their elections. This means of abolishing the "lame duck" sessions of Congress, and of putting the people's choice promptly into the White House, has been passed by the Senate before but rejected by the House...
...Cabinet.-Republican Leader Curtis of Kansas. To recognize Soviet Russia.-Republican Borah, chairman of Foreign Relations. To reduce the limit within which conspiracies must be prosecuted, from six years to three;* and to empower the President to give a court witness immunity by granting a pardon in advance.-Democrat Walsh of Montana. The Senate passed both Walsh bills promptly, without comment. To investigate public utility corporations, their profits & policies.-Democrat Walsh of Montana. To prevent distributors leasing cinema films in blocks of which exhibitors must take all or none.-Republican Brookhart of Iowa...
...When he was U. S. Attorney General (1921-24), Harry Micajah Daugherty had the statute of limitations extended from three to six years for the avowed purpose of prosecuting war frauds. The purpose of Senator Walsh's revision was to rob Milton T. Everhart, son-in-law of Albert Bacon Fall, of the excuse upon which he escaped testifying in the Fall-Sinclair oil lease trials. If immune to prosecution for anything he did more than three years ago, Mr. Everhart cannot again plead fear of selfincrimination; must tell about some suspicious Liberty Bonds he handled in 1922 during...