One rainy evening last week a Baltimore & Ohio special chuffed into Washington's cavernous Union Station bearing Franklin Delano Roosevelt to the Presidency. An hour later an Atlantic Coast Line train rumbled in from the opposite direction bearing the body of Thomas
James Walsh who was to have been the new President's Attorney General.
In Havana five days prior. Senator Walsh had married Senora Mina Perez Chaumont de Truffin, a wealthy Cuban widow (TIME, March 6). For all his 73 years and a stiff back the grim, grey Montanan was feeling fine & fit for...
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