Word: costigan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Good Skate. In Banff, Alberta, Dr. Pat Costigan got an urgent call while playing hockey, bolted from the ice, delivered a baby girl, swooped back within the hour to help his team...
...Washington, Communist-line Representative Hugh De Lacy, backed by James Roosevelt and the Independent Citizens Committee of the Arts, Sciences and Professions, reached the tape a stride ahead of political chameleon Howard Costigan, backed by Anna Roosevelt Boettiger. Hardworking, New-Dealing Senator Hugh B. Mitchell, appointed by Governor Mon C. Wallgren to fill his own unexpired term in the Senate, had little trouble winning renomination. Biggest worry of both Democratic incumbents: an unusually heavy Republican primary vote...
Republicans were amused and delighted. In a hammer-&-tongs fight for the Democratic nomination from Washington's First Congressional District (Seattle), left-wing Representative Hugh De Lacey and rabble-rousing, opportunistic Howard Costigan were tearing an old friendship to shreds. When both appealed for help to the heirs of Franklin Roosevelt, even family ties snapped under the strain...
Candidate De Lacey scored first, when Jimmy Roosevelt announced that the Independent Citizens Committee for the Arts, Sciences and Professions was swinging in behind him.* Candidate Costigan immediately dashed off a letter of protest, sent a copy to his good friend Anna Roosevelt Boettiger (who has lived in Seattle off-&-on since 1936, when her husband John began an eight-and-a-half-year term as publisher of Hearst's Post-Intelligencer). Costigan roundly denounced De Lacey as a faithful Communist-line follower who "values the welfare of one nation-other than the United States-above all others...
Back came an answer from Sister Anna, enclosing a copy of the letter she had sent Brother Jimmy. Costigan, she wrote, is a "sound and trustworthy liberal" who had resigned from De Lacey's leftist Commonwealth Federation when it hewed too close to the Communist line. Said she: "I am endorsing Costigan...