Word: patly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pittsburgh is the chosen scene of industrial empire and industrial strife; the steel-made fortune of the Scott family is cast together with the steel-made poverty of ironworker Pat Rafferty and family. The rise of Scott-hating Rafferty's daughter Mary as a maidservant in the Scott home, eventually to marry into the family, serves to weave the two sides of the railroad track into one history...
...milk bottle tossed through the window of his car narrowly missed his head. Laborite A. V. Alexander, ex-First Lord of the Admiralty, narrowly missed the nomination deadline because the car buretor of his car had been "tampered with." Bernard Shaw briefly climbed the barricades to pat Communist candidate R. Palme Dutt on the back, declare that "practical British Communism saved us in the war in the west." Sighed Labor leader Herbert Morrison: "The election is in danger of degenerating into a comic opera." Agricultural Note. There was the traditional crop of crank candidates. Wackiest of all seemed...
Among other things, the interview was not exclusive : Cecil Dickson of the Gan nett newspapers was along; so was Vice Minister of Information Hollington Tong, who pointed out, with Chinese courtesy, that Taylor must have suffered from a "misunderstanding." U.S. Ambassador Pat Hurley was not so gentle. Said...
...through the hearty and sensible good offices of Ambassador Patrick J. Hurley, had tried fervently to bring China's hostile factions together. But all of Pat Hurley's shrewd good nature and his Choctaw war whoops had failed to turn the trick. The Ambassador, after a report to Washington and a call at Moscow, was back in Chungking. He had conferred with Marshal Stalin, presumably on Russian intentions in East Asia. One report said that he had smoothed the way for a visit to the Kremlin by China's Acting Premier T. V. Soong...
...core of Liberal policy will in effect be the social-security and full-employment plans of the Party's brightest luminary, Sir William Beveridge. The election will give a historic answer to a critical question: will Britain swing to the left, like Europe, or stand pat with the conservatives, who have led it to victory in World War II? Conservatives were confident that if the election could be held soon, before wartime memories fade, Winnie would win again...