Word: inquisitor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unusual trio-Andrew William Mellon, William Morgan Butler and Will H. Hays-whom Inquisitor Walsh assembled one morning last week for examination. In 1923, Mr. Hays had tried to pass some of Harry Ford Sinclair's oily bonds to Mr. Mellon and Mr. Butler, in return for cash for the G. O. P. deficit. They had declined. But in the four subsequent years, long after all knew of Sinclair's crockery and all during the Senate's efforts to unearth it, none of the trio had breathed a word of the sly Hays plan...
...Mellon and Mr. Butler were absolved by Inquisitor Walsh of anything nefarious, though citizens still wondered at their silent sheltering of Mr. Hays...
Nervousness on the one hand, suspicion on the other, made of this story a very long and confused matter indeed when Inquisitor Walsh made Tsar Hays repeat it over & over. Less stigma would have attached but for two circumstances...
...Inquisitor Walsh thundered, Missouri's Reed hammered, Virginia's little Glass poured sputtering acid, Nebraska's cold Norris heaped disdain, upon 17 Democrats who joined Senator George with evident relief. Anger replaced relief as the debate grew hot, until Maryland's elderly Bruce, who usually just bumbles along, shrilled out: "The Senate is drunk with its investigating powers...
...this Col. Stewart explained last week to Inquisitor Walsh. Col. Stewart was patient, considering his own full-blooded pique at being peremptorily summoned from business-mixed-with-pleasure in Havana. But patience turned to indignation, blandness boiled into wrath, when Senator Walsh wondered what such an accommodating purchaser might have known or felt or perhaps shared privately from the cunning middleman's profit...