Word: patrick
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Triumphant Hour (Sun. 1:30 p.m., Mutual). Father Patrick Peyton's big Easter program, with 17 stars...
...buttonhole, President Truman walked briskly into the great House chamber. In face of a cold audience of Representatives and Senators, he flipped open a brown notebook and read from it. Though he looked like a man who was in a hurry to be off to a St. Patrick's Day parade, the President had something to say; he said it as earnestly and forcefully as he could. He issued a call to arms...
...Reviewed Manhattan's St. Patrick's Day Parade, and came face to face with New York's Republican presidential aspirant, Governor Thomas E. Dewey. Both beamed, exchanged enthusiastic handshakes and stood shoulder to shoulder in amiable conversation while the parade passed...
After that, the President had no choice but to repudiate Candidate Wallace even if it meant losing some left-wing votes for Candidate Truman. Ten hours after his appearance before Congress, the President let Wallace have it. At a Saint Patrick's Day dinner in Manhattan, the President cut the last thin thread between him and the man he had fired from his Cabinet. Said Harry Truman: "I do not want and 1 will not accept the political support of Henry Wallace and his Communists. If joining them or permitting them to join me is the price of victory...
From the Dead. The sons of an Irish miner, Patrick and William Hurley were born in the bedraggled mining town of Lehigh, Okla., then part of the Choctaw nation. Pat had got himself a college education, launched a career that made him a millionaire, Secretary of War under Herbert Hoover, roving ambassador extraordinary for Franklin Roosevelt. Bill, two years younger, left home in 1903 at 18. In 1911, some papers bearing Bill's name were found in the raincoat of a man killed near Mexico City. They decided Bill was dead...