Word: nash
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Church), young Ab-christened David Abbott-was a bike racer in the early days of the Century, later raced motorcycles on half-mile dirt tracks. In 1921, when he was a successful building contractor, he won his first auto race-on a $250 bet that he could drive his Nash from Blackfoot, Idaho to Salt Lake City and back (at that time a four-day auto trip) between dawn and dusk...
...Voice which thus lifted delegates and spectators from apathy into their first big, draft-Roosevelt demonstration belonged neither to Alben Barkley, to the People, nor to God. Politically it belonged to Chicago Bosses Ed Kelly and Pat Nash: technically, to their Superintendent of Sewers Thomas D. ("for Democrat") Garry...
Leathery, pot-bellied Tom Garry was the Kelly-Nash henchman who had charge of Stadium decorations. By prearrangement, he also had an electrical pipe line to the loudspeaker circuit, which was supposed to be controlled exclusively from the convention rostrum. In the hour of his triumph last week he was ensconced in a tiny basement room, where the amplifier circuits were centred. Six times he ran from "the catacombs" to Mayor Kelly's box and up into the galleries to survey the milling, parading, shouting results of his tongue work, then dashed back to his microphone...
...also Mrs. Garry's birthday, the first in 33 years when he had failed to give her a party. "But she's a good pal," said The Voice, "and sees the convention is more important. . . . Outside of my wife, my hobby is Mayor Kelly and Pat Nash. They're the greatest humanitarians in the world. They're the nuts...
...still Acting Governor; quiet Mr. Nudelman still went on running things; Republican Gubernatorial Candidate Dwight Green shook happy hands with Republican Senatorial Candidate C. Wayland ("Curly") Brooks. Hastily Mayor Kelly struck off a statement praising Roosevelt and Humanity and set out for a Florida vacation with horsy Mr. Nash...