Word: patly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...House of Husher. In Manhattan, Burglar Pat Moriarty, in court charged with carrying burglars' tools, refused to plead guilty as a fourth offender unless the court clerk whispered when he recited Moriarty's criminal record. The judge agreed to the arrangement, in a whisper. The clerk questioned Moriarty, in whispers, conveyed each answer to the judge, in a whisper, and finally the judge leaned across the bench and whispered, "I sentence you to 15 years to life imprisonment." Whispered Moriarty, "Thanks...
Killed on Duty. Major Eric Knight, 45, best-selling novelist (This Above All), comic fantasist (The Flying Yorkshireman); in an air transport crash in Dutch Guiana. Born in Yorkshire, he spent most of his life in the U.S., served in World War I with Canada's crack "Princess Pat" Light Infantry Regiment, won his U.S. Army commission last July...
Barbers Stand Pat...
...aranda's Problems. Ernesto Galarza, Chief of the Pan American Union's Labor and Social Information Division, accused the U.S. Government of likewise urging Bolivia to stand pat on present wage levels. His charge: U.S. Ambassador Pierre de Lagarde Boal had discussed the new labor code with President Peñaranda "for the obvious purpose of delaying the application of the wage provisions. . . . Clearly his purpose was to head off a rise in the cost of tin to the U.S. . . . The American Government is placing itself in the position of attempting to aid in the denial of those...
There apparently were enough votes to pass the silver bill (which bore the endorsement of the Army, Treasury and WPB), so Pat McCarran stayed on his feet. If he ever sat down, Administration leaders hoped to call up a bill extending RFC's borrowing authority by $5 billion (to finance war-plant expansions). But squarely blocking such hopes was the threat of Oklahoma's Elmer Thomas, a leader of the farm bloc, to start all over again the battle over farm-parity prices...