Word: mahon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Negative Report. In St. Louis, a burglar broke into Mahon Motors Inc. for the sixth time, carted off the automatic camera police had installed to trap...
...Henry N. Mahon '23, Business Manager of the Bulletin, explained yesterday that he does not ordinarily accept advertising copy concerning a candidate for the Board of Overseers. "We do not want to get involved with the Foundation," he said, "and the Bulletin is certainly not going to help those people...
...response to Roosevelt's charge that the Bulletin "evidently does not want to give the alumni any information on the nomination of Dip Bunche," Mahon pointed out that he is not required to give reasons for the rejection of any advertising copy. "If we did not have these restrictions," he continued, speaking "in general terms," the Bulletin would "be at the mercy of every crackpot in the world." Mahon added that "the Veritas Foundation seems to thrive on the controversial aspect of things...
...musical Playboy, retitled The Heart's a Wonder, is pure Synge: the rollicking story of Christy Mahon, the peasant boy who became a hero by telling a tale of parricide. The scene is still Michael James Flaherty's peat-smoked shebeen (pub), and the rich poetic dialogue is still, as Synge said a good play must be, "as fully flavored as a nut or apple." For music the O'Farrell sisters borrowed Irish ballads. As for the lyrics, they did a remarkable job of bending Synge's own lifelike speech into rhyme...
Squashed Amendments. In two days of debate, only a few Democrats rose to tackle the real meaning of the amendments in the light of global necessity. One was Texas' George Mahon, chairman of the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee and the House's ablest military specialist. While his fellow Democrats sat silent, Mahon spoke of his deep friendship for Vinson, then, with all the emotion he could muster, told why he was aligning himself with the Republicans: "I am not going to rebuff the President on this issue. I do not think it would be good statesmanship or good politics...