Word: morrissey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Down the road at Deerpark, Pat Morrissey was acting a bit odd that day himself. "When I saw the hunt coming," says he, "I called my neighbors. They grabbed the nearest implements they could get and lined the gate with me. If the Blazers try to hunt our lands we'll use force if necessary to stop them." At Moorpark Cross, other farmers patrolled the covert with rakes, and every day still others joined the boycott against the Blazers...
Vicksburg Contractor Michael T. Morrissey had testified that he happened to be passing Bilbo's "Dream House No. I" -a 27-room brick mansion near Poplarville, Miss.-one day. He found the Senator trying to build a lake with a mule, a one-armed Negro and two boys. Understandably touched, Morrissey fetched his earth-moving machinery, dug the lake, and by a "bookkeeper's error" charged the $3,672.91 cost to the Keesler Army Air Field, which he was then helping construct. He explained airily his loans of $6,000 and his gift of a Cadillac to Bilbo...
That off his chest, "The Man" began to answer specific committee charges in a 13,000-word statement. The Morrissey Cadillac had been a Christmas present ("It's just an old Southern custom...
Said Bilbo of the $3,000 he had borrowed from Abe Shushan to make a divorce settlement with his wife: "I still owe $2,250 on this alimony nightmare." The swmiming-pool bill and the Morrissey loan, he vowed he would...
Hard luck dogged them. Thomas L. Morrissey, non-flying officer, who faith fully kept a diary, noted on March...