Word: welched
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...abroad; Army Secretary Robert T. Stevens, the "nice guy" who had muddled his way into a political web; the shrewd, smooth-talking Senators Ev Dirksen and Karl Mundt; the lantern-jawed Tennessean Ray Jenkins, who as committee counsel peppered away at all comers; and adept, relaxed Boston Lawyer Joe Welch, attorney for the Army...
...amused when she herself was arrested on a charge of conspiring to obstruct justice (she had lied in giving Boy Friend Bradshaw an alibi for the dynamiting). Said she to the McClellan committee: "There was a state policeman stood there for a while watching us, and after him Detective Welch came in to see we didn't leave the room, and after him [Detective] Wojciechowski came in, and since this was early in the morning and I was not allowed in the ladies' room, and it was 2 o'clock before we were arraigned...
...eagerly with the Oregonian on the story and Hearst's Post-Intelligencer (circ. 208,224) did its best to ignore the scandal (TIME, March 11). When Beck returned from Europe last month, he at first refused to be interviewed by any newsman except the PI's Douglass Welch-who with P-I Editorial Writer Nard Jones has turned out a Horatio Algerish version of Beck's life struggle. Later, when the Times gleefully quoted Beck's admission that he had paid Welch and Jones a handsome advance out of his own (or the Teamsters') pocket...
Dean Acheson, Archibald MacLeish and Joseph N. Welch, wrote and spoke widely on civil rights but disliked being tagged a "fiery liberal," called himself a conservative "with an old-fashioned concern about the Bill of Rights...
...result was of particular interest to Researcher Welch...