Word: patly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gave Henry Kaiser a pat on the back for his Permanente project which, despite WPB pessimism, has produced 19,000,000 lb. and has "future possibilities...
Hope Revived. At week's end a ray of hope appeared again. Nevada's Pat McCarran, chairman of the Senate's liquor investigation, came out foursquare for a liquor holiday as the best way to stop hijacking (see p. 82). His committee colleague, Homer Ferguson of Michigan, concurred. But to U.S. tipplers, who have heard that kind of talk before, the holiday seemed just another mirage...
Irrational. In Los Angeles, puzzled police held Window Washer Andrew Pat Malone, tried to find out where he really got the 42 prewar tires, 13 wheel rims, 30 cases of canned food and 13 saxophones he claimed that his ration board gave...
...Roosevelt, the big event of the year is the night when he covers them. That is at the White House Correspondents' Association's annual dinner. It is the only wartime dinner the President attends outside the White House. Some of the correspondents' editors show up to pat their backs, the drinks flow swiftly, the Fourth Estate has itself a time. Last week it all happened again. But 37 White House reporters stayed away. The reason: they wear skirts...
...Democrats reorganized the Senate, Alben Barkley became assistant to powerful, stocky Majority Leader Joseph T. Robinson. In 1937, at the peak of the bitter, party-splitting fight over the President's Supreme Court-packing bill, Joe Robinson died. Senate Democrats got ready to elect Mississippi's popular Pat Harrison to the leadership. But Franklin Roosevelt wanted a majority leader of his own choosing. In days of the hottest kind of politicking, when New Dealers were throwing patronage around, the Harrison majority was steadily whittled down...