Word: patly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cattle industry. In this emergency, the Administration feared to trust wholly to Kentucky's Alben Barkley, Senate leader. Afraid that "Peerless Leader'' Barkley might lose votes and alienate people, the White House called in Mississippi's "Grey Fox," Pat Harrison, begged him to get busy...
...vote against the Pittman amendment was 44-to-41. Foxy Pat had won (had actually got one more vote than he needed); the Senate Republicans hoped they had a campaign issue; the Western Democrats were on record in defense of the interests they represent; the Southern Democrats had safely preserved the candidacy of Mr. Hull-a candidacy now theoretically perfect except for the fact that few Democrats believe he can win the election...
...Between the pacifism of the Left and the pat-standing of the Right, most Britons were as exasperated as the Sunday Pictorial, which snarled: "The British Empire was not built by the dozy fools who think we can 'muddle through.' And the muddlers will not save it for our sons. . . . Let us remember that in the last resort it is the 'under fifties' who will win this war-and not the over seventies...
...public desire for more or less war action were scheduled for consideration by the Government during the Easter recess. Indications were that they would not be nearly so drastic as those in France. If a more intensified Sitzkrieg were on the books, an inner War Cabinet under pat-standing Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax was in the cards. If blitzkrieging were in order, the Admiralty's pugnacious Winston Churchill was the man for the job. Otherwise, the Government would just rock along under the direct leadership of Hardware Man Chamberlain...
...reaction from that spell. As for effective liberal organizations, the Democratic Party has been the best of a bad lot: "a loose federation of southern cotton snobs, western dirt farmers (the real heirs of Jefferson) and the machines of Jersey City's Frank Hague, Chicago's Pat Nash and Ed Kelly, the Irish bosses of Boston. . . ." President Roosevelt, Chamberlain declares, "always went from the worse to the better until the European war distracted him." On this point he really lets fly. "It is far easier to lecture Hitler than to fight for a repeal of the poll...