Word: walsh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end the Sun hired a new circulation manager: the Chicago Daily News's Donald J. Walsh. He replaced the Great (Jack) Stenbuck, the ex-Hearstman who bragged prematurely that Detroit and Boston had taught him all there was to know about Chicago circulation...
...handsomely for the Imperial Way of Life. The Happy Valley Race Course was smooth and fast. The cool gimlets and gin slings of the Hong Kong Club were as refreshing as the food of the great hotels was dull. Shops bore names that circled the rim of Empire: Kelly & Walsh sold Britons their books, Whiteaway & Laidlaw sold them practically everything else. The white monolithic skyscraper of the Hong Kong-Shanghai Bank dominated the island's waterfront as it dominated Britain's Pacific Empire, looking down upon the lesser establishments of Jardine, Matheson & Co., Butterfield and Swire, other British...
...early hearings on a preliminary report that some shipbuilding companies are earning up to 150% on their investments. The Office of Price Administration, investigating an unnamed defense industry, found that 86 of 88 companies earn 6% or better, half earn 42.6% and up, one earns 112%. Senator David I. Walsh predicted "an awful day of reckoning" when the U.S. public gets the figures...
Senator Robert Rice Reynolds, 57, and his 20-year-old bride, the former Evalyn Walsh McLean, returned to Washington from their honeymoon, both wobbly from a double siege...
More recently, in the celebrated Walsh-Sweezy dismissal incident four years ago, Ferguson was appointed by President Conant to the Committee of Eight investigating the case...