Word: patrick
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President Wilson nor onetime (1919-21) Alien Property Custodian Francis Patrick Garvan was actuated by any but patriotic motives in selling German dye patents to the Chemical Foundation. The patents, sold for $271,000, are alleged to have been worth millions, and Mr. Garvan is now president of the Chemical Foundation. But Alexander Mitchell Palmer, previous (1917-1919) Alien Property Custodian had been empowered during his office by the President to make the sale though the transaction was not effected until Mr. Garvan's regime. Suit to recover was brought by President Harding's administration, under agency...
Railroads have begun to make use of the motor industry, whose inroads on freight and passenger traffic railroad officials have regarded with more or less apathy. President Patrick E. Crowley of the New York Central told the Toledo (Ohio) Chamber of Commerce how great those inroads have been. Railroads operate over more than a quarter-million miles of track which they have had to lay down and maintain. Motors run over three million miles of roads supported by taxation. Some of the $360,000,000 of taxes ($1,000,000 a day) which U.S. railroads pay yearly go to maintain...
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Scotch Mist. Sir Patrick Hastings,* onetime (1924) Attorney General of Great Britain under the James Ramsay Macdonald ministry, writes of a captivating lady who prefers South Africa with a masterful Scotch lover to England with a member of the British Cabinet, even though the latter happens to be her lawful, wedded husband. Into this little triangle, Sir Patrick has thrown a few chips of bright dialog, but hardly enough to exalt his play above dangerous mediocrity. Rosalinde Fuller tosses about in the role of devastating Mary Denvers with a jerkiness that irritates in spite of her sincerity. Before visiting these...
...only was Sir Patrick the first Attorney General to be admitted to a British Cabinet (1924), but an act of his was the immediate cause of the Cabinet's fall. One J. Ross Campbell had been arrested on a charge of sedition for publishing in the Worker's Weekly an article appealing to British soldiers, sailors and airmen not to fire upon British workmen, should their officers ever order them to do so. Sir Patrick, as Attorney General ordered the charge against Mr. Campbell withdrawn. At once the Communist sheetlets began publicly to rejoice that the Government...