Word: mulligan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Smith's philosophy was squarely at odds with the reckless public attitudes of his great years. He was devoutly religious, a family man who never went into nightclubs. The jazz age never won him away from songs like the Mulligan Guards. He toiled stubbornly for social reform. His life story had the old Horatio Alger plot. He was a poor East Side boy with an Irish gift for politics and people, who made good against tremendous odds...
Newly-elected president of the group is Melvin Mulligan, and Peter Fay serves as secretary-treasurer. The three-man Advisory Council includes Otto Bromer, Richard Kaye, and James McNulty, who is also Business Manager of the Redbook...
...Mulligan over Kennedy, decision...
Last week's public hearings got off to a rowdy start. As Chairman Coudert announced rules of procedure, up popped a square-jawed young man with a black patch over one eye. He was William G. Mulligan, counsel for the Teachers Union, chief target of Mr. Windels' investigation. Mr. Mulligan demanded the right to cross-examine witnesses, was finally ejected by two policemen. Then Mr. Windels introduced his star witness, a genial Brooklyn College English professor named Bernard David Nino Grebanier...
...using the first two, not the first four, words of Ulysses, TIME paid homage to James Joyce for a description that still applies to Dr. Gogarty, the Buck Mulligan of Ulysses...