Word: patly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Czechoslovakia that put Czech shoes in competition with Massachusetts shoes, while this same type economic fillip is denied a country linked to the U. S. by tradition and two wars. As the log-rolling proceeds, Congress is unwilling to sour the sugar-beet bloc, but is perfectly willing to pat an infant-nation on the head and set it loose with one foot tied. The Bell Bill tariff exemption must be extended indefinitely lest the Philippine experiment, pride of this country's colonial ventures, backfire into the face of its proud sponsor...
...Born. To Pat O'Brien, 46, soft-hearted tough guy of the screen, and Eloise Taylor O'Brien, 43, onetime Broadway actress: their first child of their own (three adopted), a daughter; in Hollywood. Name: Kathleen Bridget. Weight...
Hierarchophobes. Newest trend in the Southern Baptist Conference: the rise of younger leaders. To replace 74-year-old Conference President Pat Morris Neff, ex-Governor of Texas, the Baptists chose Dr. Louie De Votie Newton, 54, since 1929 pastor of Atlanta's Druid Hills Church, biggest Baptist church in Georgia. Dr. Newton, a onetime reporter who never studied for the ministry, preaches in a journalistic style, with emphasis on current events. (Last fortnight he sailed into the resurgent Klan as it staged a tumultuous cross-burning near Atlanta...
...bloc's high hopes to put this deal over ran into a snag. A subcommittee of the Senate Appropriations Committee reported favorably on the bloc's plan. But the House balked, indicated that it would discuss 90-cent but not $1.29 silver. Miffed, Nevada's Senator Pat McCarran, bloc leader, claimed he would settle for no less...
...Valera did "or ever could"; Patrick Pearse, the one militant leader to fight for Ireland "from the midst of the Faith" ("Ah, Patrick Pearse, you were a man, a poet, with a mind simple as a daisy"). And all the rest of the Irish, great & small: the Pat O'Rourkes, Maggie Burkes, Tim Sheas, Muldoon the Solid Man, the Rose of Tralee, Dr. Michael O'Hickey, Tom Clarke, Sean T. O'Kelly in his top hat and frock coat...