Word: walsh
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Army would scrap it as superfluous and no longer practical (except possibly as state militias set up for police and disaster work). Stoutly on record as favoring universal military training, the politically potent Association will nevertheless fight any attempt to wash out their organization. Major General Ellard A. Walsh, Association president, said: "The chances of the Regular Army to impose its ideas of a military establishment on the nation are probably slim...
...back to Columbus, Ohio, after trekking down side roads in 31 states, 16,000 miles from coast to coast. Harry Truman ended an 8,000-mile, 15-state tour with a blazing blunder in close-fought Massachusetts. He called his fellow Democratic Senator, Massachusetts' massive, paunchy David Ignatius Walsh, an isolationist, adding brightly: "But we have a chance to reform him." Senator Walsh, a longtime anti-New Dealer, reputedly of great influence on the Massachusetts Catholic vote, had devoted exactly two grudging sentences to the support of his party, without reference to Term IV. Walsh made the most...
...squabbling over who would do the renting of the huge 105,000-seat Coliseum. Waiting for a break in the clouds were Payne's movietown moneymen, Frank Sinatra and Harry James; Meehan's onetime Syracuse classmate, Cinema Producer Harry Joe Brown; and Ward's watchers, Christy Walsh and Don Ameche...
...battle began more than two years ago, when the Senate Naval Affairs Committee's bumbling, lumbering isolationist chairman, David Ignatius Walsh of Massachusetts, inserted a no-overseas-duty amendment to the bill creating the women's reserve. (WACs have long been overseas.) Whenever Navy brass hats appeared asking for WAVES overseas, Senator Walsh demurred, even after the House passed such a bill twice. By last week not even Dave Walsh could offer any valid reason for keeping all of the 77,000 WAVES, 19,000 Women Marines, and 9,000 SPARS from completely safe spots overseas. Admiral Nimitz...
...entertainers: Pianist Artur Rubinstein, Ballerina Alicia Markova, Funnyman Danny Kaye, Songstress Judy Garland. Cinemactor Charles Boyer (reciting La Marseillaise), Elsa herself (playing the Star-Spangled Banner). Among the guests: blue-haired Internationalist Lady Mendl, red-haired Greer Garson, black-haired Authoress Anita Loos, cigar-ash-grey-color haired Evalyn Walsh McLean (with her Hope diamond...