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Senator Thomas J. Walsh of Montana : law and public affairs, from TR to FDR

eBook, English, c1999
University of Illinois Press, Urbana, c1999
Biographies
1 online resource (xiv, 410 pages : illustrations)
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An Irish-American family
The young intellectual
the Dakota frontier
Helena lawyer and Democrat
Politics, law, and the copper kings
Lawyer, Progressive, and public man
The emergence of a leader
To the Senate at last
The tariff fight of 1913
The "new freedom" in Montana: hopes and illusions
The "new freedom": a lawyer-senator at work
The "new freedom" and Western land policy
America and the "war-mad nations of Europe"
Winning the West with Wilson, 1915-16
From peace to war
Reelection in 1918
The League of Nations fight
1920 politics and issues of the Red Scare
Walsh and Wheeler, 1922
Public lands, Native Americans, and campaigns for (honest) leasing
The investigator
New prospects for the Democrats
Winning a third term in 1924
Abiding the Coolidge administration
Oh! for a Jefferson
Prohibition and politics
The Continental Trading Company Limited and Senate
Revelations of 1928
The campaign of 1928
Gratifying victory in 1930
The rule
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