Word: patly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...That this expedition, beginning this week, would not greatly enliven Washington's hottest weeks and not give the newspapers something very much better to talk about than strikes and the President's defeat on the Court Plan, observers suspected when Mr. Garner put Mississippi's urbane Pat Harrison at the head of a crew among whom only Wisconsin's La Follette really thirsts for millionaire blood. The others were Massachusetts' tame Walsh, Utah's sick King, Georgia's bland George, calm Capper of Kansas. From the House, where quick thinking by Representative...
...high Commons Room, whose fluted columns and mosaic floor had just been finished, Chancellor Bowman invited representatives of his students, trustees and faculty to watch a belated cornerstone laying. With Mayor Cornelius Decatur Scully and Steel Heiress Helen Clay Frick looking on, the chancellor gave the stone a proud pat of cement and two husky seniors shoved it into place...
Prime political event of last week was the beginning of a fishing trip. One morning Franklin Roosevelt, 27 hours out of Washington, detrained at Biloxi, Miss, accompanied by his trusty supporter, Senator Pat ("The Fox") Harrison. With Governor Hugh White of Mississippi they drove to Jefferson Davis' onetime estate (now a home for Confederate veterans) and on to Gulfport, home of Senator Harrison. There the President was joined by his son Elliott and Governor Richard Webster Leche (pronounced lesh) of Louisiana and entrained, beginning the significant part of his journey...
None of those implicated were released, but it was definitely learned that no disciplinary action will be taken until the Administrative Board meets in two weeks. Meanwhile the University stood pat on its statement of Monday evening that any student guilty of an "offence against law and order in connection with a disturbance may have his connection with the College severed, and the mere presence of an undergraduate in a disturbance may result in disciplinary action...
Obstructionism to them is a one way street. A good disciple of the President will swell with anger when the Court blocks liberal legislation, but it is a very gingerly pat on the back that he gives the Court when it obstructs a Georgia Sedition...