Word: walsh
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...rejected even that cursory A.B.A. involvement. Now, he has reversed himself. With Nixon's approval, Attorney General John Mitchell announced that henceforth he will furnish the A.B.A. panel with the "names of persons whom I may have under serious consideration." The committee chairman, New York Attorney Lawrence E. Walsh, hailed the move as "the most important innovation in the procedure for selecting Supreme Court nominees which any recent Attorney General has undertaken...
...panel approved both Haynsworth and Carswell, even after damaging evidence against them had been turned up by other groups. While the committee might block political hacks, scholars fear that it would favor technically qualified judges at the expense of creative or unconventional men needed to leaven the high court. Walsh acknowledged that the screening process will almost surely produce leaks, thus exposing seriously considered names to public scrutiny-and enabling Presidents to drop unpopular men without loss of face. The quality of the committee's review will depend on the rigor of its investigation. Ultimately, a committee can only...
...admitted that he was "very tired," but he walked unassisted across the heavily guarded Lo Wu bridge separating the China mainland from the British colony of Hong Kong. U.S. consular officials were soon en route to welcome the arrival: 79-year-old Bishop James E. Walsh of Baltimore. After twelve years of captivity in a Shanghai prison, the Roman Catholic prelate last week was given his freedom...
...Bishop Walsh, a former superior-general of the Maryknoll Fathers, had also been convicted of spying. Before his arrest in 1958, the Communist regime offered several times to send him home. He refused each offer. The risk of imprisonment, he wrote shortly before his arrest, is "a small price to pay for carrying out our duty." Bishop Walsh celebrated his first Mass in 12 years at a Hong Kong hospital where he was taken for rest and a physical examination...
...announcing Walsh's release, Peking cited the bishop's age and ill health, claiming he had "confessed his crimes." Walsh said he had signed no confession. The most likely explanation for Peking's move was to head off bad publicity from one American's death with the release of another...