Word: walsh
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...least fiery member of the Committee is Senator Brookhart, its Chairman, a bucolic rifleshot, with an evangelistic temperament. Senator Wheeler of Montana, colleague of Senator Walsh, prime mover of the oil investigation, is the active prosecutor. Wheeler is young, radical, a hard fighter, a smiling fighter, somewhat inclined, nevertheless, to lose his head. Strangely enough, he has the accent of Massachusetts, his native State. For comrades, Brookhart and Wheeler have the tart Moses from New Hampshire; Jones of Washington, normally placid and a bit heavy, but roaring, desk-pounding when aroused; Ashurst from Arizona, with a substantial "bazoo...
...connection with the oil scandal is that he gave tentative assent to Mr. Fall's attempt to make the investigating committee believe that a newspaper publisher, not an oil magnate, had lent him $100,000. ¶ The publication of a telegram from Mr. Doheny to .Senator Walsh, investigator, saying "Merry Christmas from Mrs. Doheny and me to you and yours" and asking whether the Senator would take part with him in an oil venture in Montana. The telegram was sent before it was known that Mr. Doheny had lent $100,000 to Mr. Fall. Mr. Walsh replied by letter...
...McLean was the man who ex-Secretary Fall had said lent him $100,000. McLean, through his attorney, A. Mitchell Palmer (first Alien Property Custodian and later Attorney General under Mr. Wilson), had confirmed this statement. Later, Senator Walsh of Montana had taken testimony from Mr. McLean at Palm Beach, in which the latter admitted that, although he had given Mr. Fall checks for $100,000, they had been returned uncashed. So Mr. McLean was indubitably connected with the oil scandals...
Among the other promotions are Carroll William, Dodge G. '15, to Assistant Professor of Botany; William Edward McCurdy '16, to Assistant Professor of Law; Richard Stockton Merriam '14, to Assistant Professor of History; Joseph Leonard Walsh '16, to Assistant Professor of Mathematics...
...associates of Senator Walsh are very improper investigators of any moral question. Jim Reed is a political skunk, and if he were dusted with asafetida it would perfume...