Word: irishman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...budget is not so much "Vhat limit should be put on spending?" as "What do we have to spend to do what we have to do?" Nonetheless, the massive Pentagon requests are clipped just about as hard as before. Kennedy, said one aide, "may have the brain of an Irishman, but he's got the heart of a Boston banker...
...republicans had their generals (milkmen and cobblers in private life), their officers' mess, and even a cannon with homemade shells. But they had no front line. By the time they established this military necessity, it was Sunday, recalls O'Connor, and "after his longing for Mass, an Irishman's strongest characteristic is his longing for home and Mother, and anyone who knew his Ireland would have guessed that on that fine summer morning our whole front was being pierced in a dozen places by nostalgic enemy soldiers, alone or in force, all pining to embrace their mothers...
Back in New York City after a ten-year Mexican sojourn, William O'Dwyer, 70, the fun-loving Irishman who became New York City's mayor, was home for good in the "one hell of a city" that he loves. U.S. Ambassador to Mexico during his first two years south of the border, Bill O'Dwyer quietly left Mexico City last May, came to Manhattan and got himself a Park Avenue apartment. It gradually dawned on New Yorkers that "Billo" had returned to stay. Immensely popular among Mexicans, Lawyer O'Dwyer hopes to renew...
Declaration of War. The young Roman Catholic Irishman was destined to play a significant role in Utah journalism. From railroad clerking, John Francis Fitzpatrick went on to be secretary to another Irishman, Thomas Kearns, former U.S. Senator from Utah (1901-05) and millionaire silver miner. With a share of his fortune, Kearns bought the Tribune in 1913. After his death, Kearns's heirs named John Francis Fitzpatrick publisher of the Tribune...
...characteristic foresight, he had decided years ago on his successor: John W. Gallivan, 45. On Fitzpatrick's death the Tribune, in open defiance of the old man's longstanding order, ran his picture on Page One, thereby providing many subscribers with their first glimpse of the ungregarious Irishman who had greatly altered and immeasurably improved Utah's journalistic landscape...