Word: patly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nevada's silver-maned, paunchy Senator Pat McCarran, busily running for reelection, fortnight ago tried to turn this Western suspicion into votes. He proposed to the Senate that $7,000,000,000 worth of Government-owned war plants in eleven northeastern states be "frozen." Much Eastern reconversion would thus be halted till postwar industry could be expanded in the West and South. (Cried Massachusetts' Governor Leverett Saltonstall: "A plan characteristic of Hitler...
...jockeyed for official G.O.P. favor. But the significance of this adroit move, obviously sanctioned by the high command, was not lost on North Dakotans. It was plain that Tom Dewey had ordered no more than the merest routine courtesy to Isolationist Nye, and had given Independent Lynn Stambaugh a pat on the back. This was also typical Dewey caution...
...Kwantung Peninsula, and at Loyang and Kaifeng, in occupied China. Every plane that left the ground returned safely-adding to the evidence that the last bugs are being driven out of the giant bombers. Radioed happy General ("Hap") Arnold to the 20th Bombardment Group: "I reserve a special pat on the back for your ground crews and all maintenance and supply crews...
...audience began to fly thick & fast: "Why is the Catholic Bible different from the Protestant Bible? Why don't Catholics read the Bible? Why did the Catholic Church chain the Bible in the Middle Ages?" Betty Ryan kept her poise and sense of humor, had her answers pat. Said she, stepping down after 20 minutes: "North Carolina was never like this...
...excited urchin snatches Goodman's clarinet, is chased to a tenement home where his factory-worker brother, Johnny Birch (James Cardwell), is improvising on the trombone. Overheard by Goodman, Birch is hired for the band, goes on tour, gets vamped first by the band's singer, Pat Sterling (Lynn Bari), later, by Trudy Wilson (Linda Darnell), a luscious New York socialite. Birch tries to start his own band, fails miserably, goes back to a factory job. But Goodman and Trudy have not forgotten him. At regular intervals, Goodman & band offer welcome distraction from this quavery little plot with...