Word: patrick
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...controversial Yugoslavia the Vatican last week decided to send one of the Catholic Church's most controversial bishops, Joseph Patrick Hurley* of St. Augustine...
...years the hard-muscled members of the East Coast's International Longshoremen's Association have grumbled at the highhanded, well-manicured leadership of bulky, redheaded Joseph Patrick Ryan. On Oct. 1, when 30,000 stevedores walked off the job in New York City, they revolted. Led by Eugene Sampson, business agent for Manhattan's largest local, 791, the rebels had balked at a Ryan-negotiated contract which gave them a 10?-an-hour pay increase and a week's paid vacation. Reason: it ignored their demands for smaller sling loads, larger working crews and a guarantee...
Grey, ramrod-backed Major General Patrick Jay Hurley came back to Washington last week, presumably to resign as the U.S. Ambassador to China. The handsome, 62-year-old Oklahoman refused to confirm reports that President Truman would soon release him from his war job. But it was obvious that Pat Hurley's mission was ended...
...Joseph Patrick Kennedy, now 57 and with red hair greying, came out of self-imposed political exile last week and went back to work for his native state of Massachusetts...
...Yenan flocked to the airfield to see nervous Mao Tse-tung take off for his unity conference with Chiang Kaishek. U.S. Ambassador Patrick J. Hurley had flown up from Chungking the night before (with two cases of Scotch) to escort the Communist leader. Mao hugged his little daughter, kissed his young wife goodbye with the quiet desperation of a man going to be executed. Then he climbed aboard for the first plane ride of his 52 years, his first meeting with the Generalissimo in two decades of civil strife...