Word: patrick
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After reading the letter in the newspapers, Dr. Straton promptly agreed to the debate, and made almost hourly suggestions, such as a return debate in St. Patrick's Cathedral, a continuation of the debate in a dozen southern cities, and that the largest Manhattan auditorium be selected in preference to Calvary Church. The Governor would have none of these. He desired merely to defend his reputation as a (sexually) right-thinking man before the congregation before which he believed he had been slandered by innuendo...
...meeting be held, therefore, in Madison Square Garden, or other suitable, very large hall, with a division of the sittings-say, to the number of 3,000 for our Calvary members and friends, and the same number for, say, the St. Patrick's Cathedral congregation and your friends-the other 20,000 sittings to be equally divided between Democratic and Republican headquarters for distribution...
Editor Lorimer (Saturday Evening Post) prized rare glassware as he left the Majestic. Particularly proud was he of a drinking glass engraved with the words, "To Reverend Dr. Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral." Below, an engraved likeness of the Dean. Below, "In a Bumper...
...Metre Run. Won by Paavo Nurmi of Finland, 30 min., 18½ sec. Willie Ritola of Finland finished a scant yard behind Nurmi. One-Hundred-Metre Dash. Won by Percy Williams of Canada, 10½ sec. Frank Wykoff, California schoolboy favorite, finished fourth. Sixteen-Pound Hammer Throw. Won by Patrick O'Callaghan of Ireland, 168 ft.,718½ in. Four-Hundred-Metre Hurdles. Won by Lord David Burghley of Great Britain...
Rightdoers in Great Britain are protected from newspaper libel by laws far more drastic than any similar U. S. statute. Last week Manhattan's Patrick Joseph Cardinal Hayes won heavy compensation from the London Sunday Express which had erroneously reported the Cardinal to have said that the late assassinated Irish Free State Minister of Justice Kevin O'Higgins was "an English hireling...