Word: patly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nothing went according to those pat, rigorous socialist books he had read long ago. The struggle between the factions in the Republican Government reached the point where he was forced from office. He retired, accusing the Communists of using the civil war to take over Spain. But he remained loyal to the Republic, fled with its Government to France. There the Nazis found him, sent him to Oranienburg concentration camp...
...Ottawa last week Pat Conroy, secretary-treasurer of the Canadian Congress of Labor, made a prediction: at least 200,000 members of the C.C.L. unions will be involved in campaigns for wage increases "within the next two months." Before he spoke, the roar had already begun...
...came from Washington for one more great task. One day last November he was at his Leesburg (Va.) farm, where he takes a countryman's joy in pruning trees, growing sweet corn and keeping compost pits. President Truman, troubled and hard-pressed by the explosive resignation of Ambassador Pat Hurley, was on the wire. Would the General postpone his well-earned rest to do an emergency job in China? With a sigh, the General looked at his half-unpacked bags. Ten days later, he was on his way to Chungking, 12,000 miles from Leesburg...
...Radio favors the sponsor before it favors the public. What are needed, said FCC, are more noncommercial sustaining programs, of wide variety; less sponsored, pat-formula shows. As an example of the attitude it does not like, FCC quoted a New York advertising executive who said: "The best radio program is the one that sells the most goods...
...outright where the soldier or his family is unable to repay a loan. . . . With us it was a question of allotment checks being six months behind schedule. I know that the A.E.R. has helped hundreds of service families in just such a predicament. . . . Why not give it a big pat on the back? (MRS.) MARGARET K. BENTLEY Jamestown...