Word: walsh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...over Wheeler's office as headquarters for a lobby against the impending Neutrality amendments. (The last private citizen who invaded a Congressional office to bore at legislation from within was John L. Lewis: he moved into Speaker Bankhead's office during a fight on amendments on the Walsh-Healey Act. When Congressmen found out about it, they raised the roof. If anyone has tried it since, he has kept it dark.) First plan had been to hold a big lunch in the House restaurant. But most isolationist Congressmen who were invited preferred a free tour of Fort Belvoir...
Thursday. The churchmen rise in protest. Father Edmund A. Walsh of Georgetown University, onetime papal envoy in Russia, says the Soviet Constitution "guarantees nothing but a hollow shell of religious freedom." Methodist Bishop Raymond J. Wade of Detroit, former bishop of the Russian area, says: "Undisputed imprisonment and slaying of tens of thousands of priests . . . together with thousands of closed churches, speak louder than printed words...
Details of Chadwick's inspection were supplied by Frank Walsh of the Tacoma Chamber of Commerce...
...Walsh: [Chadwick] was accompanied by T. D. Jollie, chief engineer for Alcoa. . . . They drove by twice, but nobody got out and looked over the site. Later Chadwick called and said that Jollie declared it would...
Engaged. Senator Robert Rice Reynolds, 57, of North Carolina; and Evalyn Walsh McLean, 20, daughter of diamond-bearing dowager Evalyn Walsh McLean. The Senator has been married four times...