Word: irishman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Production-the job of getting armament built-remains under big, silver-topped William H. Harrison, a genial Irishman who talks out of the side of his mouth like a Brooklyn politician. Blue-eyed Bill Harrison started his career climbing telephone poles for $6 a week, worked up to vice president of American Telephone & Telegraph, got into the defense program by sheer accident. One day in 1940 Bill Knudsen, in search of a construction expert for OPM, called A.T. & T. President Walter Gifford, was switched to Harrison because Gifford was out of town. Harrison took the job, moved...
Speaker was a husky, 55-year-old Irishman named Harry Newman, who last week bobbed up as new publisher-editor of the 87-year-old Kansas City (Mo.) Journal. He spoke with apt awareness of the tough competition he is up against...
...cast cannot be blamed for hardly making an impression. Author Frederick Hazlitt Brennan, onetime newspaperman, short-story writer and sometime playwright, forgot to provide his play with more than one character. The rest of his dramatis personae, including a policeman, an A.R.P. warden, a British colonel and an Irishman, he apparently picked from the most fatuous stereotypes in Punch's files. He also forgot to provide any dramatic reason for his first act and frequently let his farce run at cross purposes with his blood & thunder...
Peck speaks no Thai, and his China lore will be no asset to him in Thailand. The Thai people love the Chinese about the way a County Cork Irishman loves the British. Like the Irish, Thailanders are not impressed by the bold, underdog fight their neighbors are putting up against the Axis...
...County Derry Irishman named William Connor, who writes for the London Daily Mirror under the pseudonym "Cassandra," sharpened his Celtic fangs last fortnight, grabbed a BBC mike, and proceeded to chew up Funnyman Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, who now broadcasts out of Berlin for Goebbels & Co. (TIME, July 7, 14). Strange stuff for staid old BBC were his scarifying comments...