Word: mc
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York. Pilot William F. Mc-Laughlin climbed up the side of the Leviathan, presented to Patrick Cardinal Hayes, a memorial from the 120 Sandy Hook pilots of the Port of New York: "Though our ranks are predominantly non-Catholic, nevertheless we are conscious of the exalted influence of your personality and position, not only as the superior of nearly 2,000,000 of souls in your Metropolitan See, but as well on society in general. . . . With the voices of our entire membership, strengthened by the breezes of the ocean, we welcome you to our shore...
...Johnson's most justly famous speech on the floor of the Senate was the one in which he pronounced Mc-Adoo "Micky Doo." The sole disturbance caused by him was an attack on the press gallery for alleged misrepresentation of his grammar and accent...
...Bascom Slemp, Secretary to the President, was called before the investigating committee and asked what relations he had with Edward B. Mc-Lean, ex-Secretary Fall, Sinclair or Doheny. The last two he had never met or communicated with. During the first two weeks in January while the Secretary was at Palm Beach on vacation, he had encountered Mr. McLean on the golf course. Later he had called on the McLeans and had met Mr. Fall who was visiting them. They had talked about the Volstead Act, golf, the weather, the Mellon tax plan. Teapot Dome, not then such...
...leader?" Henry Bacon was born of New England parents at Watseka, Ill., in 1866. He was graduated from the University of Illinois, completed his studies in Europe by help of the Rotch traveling scholarship. A close friend of the late Stanford White, he was at one time connected with Mc-Kim, Mead & White. In 1897 he started the firm of Brite & Bacon in New York, finally in 1903 establishing himself alone as one of America's most successful architects...
...metre dash, indoor: Bob Mc-Allister of Brooklyn, 11 sec. (According to A. A. U. officials it was the first time the 100-metre race had ever been held indoors...