Word: patly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...years Ed Kelly and Pat Nash, the sewer contractor, had run Chicago. That was a long time. Now Pat was dead, and the Boss was 70. The committeemen watched as Corporation Counsel Barnet Hodes whispered in the Boss...
...statement written by some word fellow, which he tried to get somebody else to read. No one else moved, so the mayor read it himself in a grating voice. He had not wanted to take over the chairmanship in the first place. He had only taken it over after Pat Nash died in 1943 because of the great emergency. Now he had decided he didn't have time to be mayor and chairman both...
...Brain. Jake Arvey was born 50 years ago near the Loop. He worked his way through school into law and Chicago politics. He became Pat Nash's golden-haired boy when, at Nash's bidding, he led Jewish voters to the polls to vote against Jewish Governor Horner. In the Kelly-Nash machine, where Nash was the muscle and Ed Kelly the front, Jake Arvey became the brain ("the only man in the organization who ever read a book"). As a National Guard officer in the Judge Advocate General's office, he went to the Philippines with...
...memorial services for Franklin Roosevelt in the House chamber this week, Senate Majority Leader Alben Barkley, ruffled as a wet hen over Harry Truman's rejection of his advice on the OPA bill, stiffly snubbed the President's overture of friendship. For Harry Truman's pat on his arm, the Kentucky Senator had only a formal...
Mayor William O'Dwyer of New York flew to California for a ten-day vacation, gladdened the heart of Actor Pat O'Brien by standing as godfather to O'Brien's infant daughter, christened Kathleen Bridget...