Word: patching
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Inescapable Conflict. John Sparkman likes to reconcile-or at least patch up-opposing views, a taste which makes him a good politician. But in February 1948 came Harry Truman's call for compulsory FEPC, anti-lynching and anti-poll tax laws, a blow which forced the great majority of Southern New Dealers into the arms of Southern conservatives. For the first time John Sparkman found his loyalty to the Administration in inescapable conflict with his loyalty to the South and his own political skin. As unobtrusively as possible Sparkman chose the South. He tried to avoid public discussion...
...impaled on giant musical instruments. Although he had his gentler moments on canvas, his earthly scenes abound in abandoned lovers, tortured sick men and money-loving monks, with a watching demon or two always close at hand. Through them runs a train of almost surrealistic symbolism, a cross patch of a witches' Sabbath and a psychoanalyst's nightmare, that has fascinated and baffled five centuries of art critics...
...your June 23 article on the patch over the eye of the Hathaway shirt man: I thought you might be interested in knowing that Raymond Loewy, the industrial designer, has just designed a toy duck for a large toy firm. The duck will have a patch over its eye. The company expects to make 5,000,000 of them, and I wouldn't be surprised if cows and horses take...
Fine was born (1893) in such a town, an anthracite "mine patch" near Nanticoke. His father worked for the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Coal Co., first running the stationary engine in the shaft, then working on a company-owned farm. When little John was in grade school, he helped at farm chores and plowing. But he found that a man could still make his way out of the dark hills if he wanted to. After he graduated from high school, Fine studied law, paying his way by a job delivering and picking up laundry...
...1920s, Fine became friendly with a Philadelphia lawyer by the name of Francis Shunk Brown. Brown wanted some day to run for governor, and discussed his plans with Fine. The boy from the mine patch was thrilled to be the confidant of so big a man. "I felt highly honored to be in the presence of Francis Shunk Brown," says Fine. "I looked up to him with the most profound respect and admiration." But Fine told him that if ever Gifford Pinchot, to whom he owed his judgeship, should decide to run for governor again, he would have to support...