Word: courtneys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Martin Kennelly pulled no punches. He reminded the committeemen (who needed no reminding) that he had successfully fought the Kelly-Nash machine in 1936 when he backed Henry Horner for the governorship; that he had fought Kelly again, though unsuccessfully, when he boomed Tom Courtney for the mayor's seat in 1939. He had not changed a bit, he said. He was going to go ahead on his own; if his ideas clashed with the machine, the machine would have to yield...
...HANNAH COURTNEY...
Some wrestled indignant dowagers for the possession of seats from which to view the three-hour Centennial parade. In the official reviewing stand were Maurice Tobin, governor of Massachusetts; James Michael Curley, mayor of Boston; and Lieut.-Gen. Courtney L. Hodges, famed commander of the First Army...
Among the speakers at the Cambridge Centennial dinner, Wednesday evening at the Hotel Commander, were President Conant, Gen. Courtney H. Hodges, former First Army commander, and Marine Corps Congressional Medal of Honor winner Brig.-Gen. Merritt A. Edson...
...where the young buck has gone? It seemed to him "a goodbye to the West, a goodbye to youth. . . . I began to find a meaning of my own young years." Fowler trained in the same up-from-cops school of journalism as Ben Hecht. Stanley Walker and the late Courtney Ryley Cooper, whose credo is that the old bars were the best, and that the only thing to do with a tall tale is to make it taller. Solo has many moments of awed moralizing, semi-penitential, Hollywood-haunted sentiment. But throughout runs a vein of the old, Rocky Mountain...