Word: walsh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...five-year enlistment without staining his spotless character. Presidential intervention was the only hope. So Cartoonist Fisher wrote to Presidential Press Secretary Stephen Tyree Early, got permission to have President Roosevelt solve the dilemma. The President ap peared in the strip on two successive days, first reviving Knobby Walsh, Palooka's manager, after telling him that Joe had deserted and was to be shot; later expressing his interest in Joe's defending the championship...
...delved into by a joint committee headed by Ohio's industrious, gum-chewing Senator Vic Donahey, with $50,000 to spend (TIME, June 6). Because Vic Donahey knows he is not a born inquisitor like such famed Senators as Black, Wheeler, Nye, La Follette and the late Tom Walsh, his committee last week retained a paid inquisitor just as the Senate's Wall Street investigation in 1933-34 hired Lawyer Ferdinand Pecora. The TVA committee's choice: Francis Biddle, 52, a Philadelphia lawyer who followed Franklin Roosevelt through Groton and Harvard into the New Deal, served...
...them together at his palatial new United Mine Workers headquarters. There he gave them a stiff six-hour talking to. Grim and tired, Leader Lewis emerged to announce that all parties would go to Capitol Hill next day to lobby for an important labor bill, an amendment to the Walsh-Healey Act making compliance with the Wagner Act a prerequisite for firms awarded Government contracts. After that, the factions were to reconvene at the Lewis headquarters...
...Reassured the wool industry. Dissident factions in the wool trade recently inspired a special Senate committee to investigate speculation and other phases of wool marketing. Last week the committee's chairman, Senator David I. Walsh of Massachusetts, announced that the committee "has no reason to believe present practices are reprehensible...
Surrealism (Sat. 7:30 p m., CBS). Lewis Carroll's, Ernest Walsh's and George Whitsett's poetry, Paul Hindemith's, Eric Satie's and Virgil Thomson's music, and lectures by Surrealists Andre Breton and Salvador Dali, Connoisseurs Thomas Dabney Mabry Jr. and Julien Levy from Columbia's Workshop to explain and illustrate surrealism. NBC counters an hour later with Roland Bradley's play about surrealism. (Sat. 8:30 p.m., Blue...