Word: patly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Twenty-two years before, at the unripe age of 29, Pat Harrison had been elected to the House from his native Mississippi, after eight years had graduated into the Senate. The Republicans then ruled the roost, and Pat Harrison, better than any other, showed how a politician can be effective though in the minority. Tall, lazy, mellow-voiced by nature, he was a gadfly in the Senate, deriding, denouncing, destroying the pretensions, incompetence and mistakes of the Republicans...
With the coming to power of Roosevelt II, Pat Harrison was recast in the thankless and inappropriate role of defender of the pretensions, incompetence and mistakes of the Democrats. Trusted by all his colleagues, and loyal without limit to his party, he remained faithful, not only when the President kept him from becoming majority leader, but even when the White House double-crossed him on legislative matters. As chairman of the Finance Committee, he steered through the Senate New Deal legislation which made him wince and blink-a man as loyal as he was able...
Fortnight ago Pat Harrison underwent an operation for an intestinal obstruction. This week he died. There were still a few Southerners with his old-fashioned political creed left in Congress. But Pat Harrison was a symbol. A chapter...
...bearded Judas emerges as a shifty, bootlicking, debt-ridden chiseler, and a onetime lover of Mary Magdalene. High Priest Caiaphas is a pompous, bull-like prelate, Pilate an ineffectual figure. In a rather too pat invention, the "good thief" crucified along with Jesus is no thief but a revolutionist whose daughter is a Christian. The miracles, and the appearance of angels at the tomb of Jesus, are reported matter-of-factly...
Died. Senator Byron Patton ("Pat") Harrison, 59, Congressman for 30 years; in Washington...