Word: casey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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SUNSET AND EVENING STAR (339 pp.)-Sean O'Casey-Macmillan...
...great trouble with the great Irish writers is that they make Irishmen seem like nobody else at all. That, as James Joyce, Sean O'Casey and a dozen others have proved, is fine up to a point, but sooner or later even the most sympathetic reader gets tired of a literary chosen people. Short Story Writer Frank O'Connor has a nice way of making his people look, feel and sound like anyone else. Any reader might find himself saying: there but for lack of poteen, a certain uneasiness about sex and a wary relationship with the parish...
...Washington, the sadly slumping Senators fired Manager Bucky Harris after five losing years, were reported ready to hire Chuck Dressen, who led the Brooklyn Dodgers to two successive National League pennants (1952-53) before being fired himself. In New York, after his first losing season in six years, Manager Casey Stengel was given a new, two-year contract by the Yankees (estimated salary...
...Government banned the sale of its low-priced surplus ships to foreign investors. But despite all precautions, United Tanker Corp., a Chinese firm with a phony U.S. front, worked out a deal to buy six surplus tankers from a group of promoters headed by Joseph E. Casey,*onetime Democratic Congressman from Massachusetts (TIME, March 3, 1952 et seq.). As a test case the U.S. Justice Department went to court over the sale of one tanker (the Meacham), won the case, seized five ships and sold the Meacham with the proceeds held by the court...
...coincidence Federal District Judge Luther Youngdahl last week dismissed two indictments charging Casey with conspiring to defraud the Government in surplus-ship sales to Greek shippers. Casey had won immunity by telling a federal grand jury about the transactions...