Word: patly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...county whose officials are responsible, is already in the statue books, of twelve States. But filibustered rarely have to talk about bills. As Tom Connally's loyal little band?Georgia's Russell, North Carolina's Bailey, South Carolina's James Byrnes, Tennessee's Kenneth McKellar, Louisiana's Ellender, and Pat Harrison?began their operations they had one stroke of luck. Illinois' porky, cautious William Dieterich had persuaded the Judiciary Committee to tack on an amendment exempting counties (i. e., Illinois' Cook) from liabilities arising from gang murders and labor violence. This gave Kenneth McKellar an opportunity to bait Illinois...
...staff. But right out of old Mr. Lorimer's book is the reaching journalistic curiosity, the solid dependability and the capacity to absorb work which seem most typical of Wesley Stout. Under Wesley Stout the Post has moved no further leftward than it stood in the stand-pat days of George Horace Lorimer. Extreme partisanship, however, with regard to the current economic battle lines was much more a part of Mr. Lorimer's nature than it is of Wesley Stout's, who was probably too recently a newspaperman standing on the sidelines with a press card...
...letter to Chairman Pat Harrison of the Senate's Finance Committee, the President recommended amending the Social Security Act to provide standard payments for 1,100,000 additional prospective beneficiaries, including 175,000 national & certain other bank employes, 180,000 seamen, and 800,000 persons, now 60 or more who, by the existing statute, would get a small lump sum payment instead of annuities...
...Shanghai, Generalissimo Chiang's big banker brother-in-law T. V. Soong was standing pat in the International Settlement, despite reports that he had fled. "I predict," he declared "that within three months-providing we can hold out, which I am sure we can-Japan will be on the verge of bankruptcy and facing revolution!" To achieve this aim, Chinese were burning down whole cities, such as Chinkiang 40 miles east of Nanking, destroying millions of dollars worth of Chinese property. This was announced as a "scorched earth policy" to make conquest as difficult as possible for Japan...
...Coach Pat Johnson's wrestlers opened their season Saturday as the Varsity scored an overwhelming triumph over M. I. T. by the score...