Word: patrick
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chicago's Marshall Field & Co. was determined to sell its giant, profitable Merchandise Mart. Joseph Patrick Kennedy, onetime Securities & Exchange and Maritime Commission chairman, was determined...
...Patrick Henry's home, "Red Hill" in Virginia, was taken over by the Patrick Henry Memorial Foundation for $60,000, in a settlement of the estate of the patriot's great-granddaughter, Mrs. Matthew Bland Harrison...
...enjoyed your sermon very much." Countless beamingly polite churchgoers so inform their preachers every Sunday. Last week the Rev. Robert E. Woods, veteran preacher of Manhattan's St. Patrick's Cathedral, took the wind out of their sails. Said he, from the pulpit: "Sermons are not intended to be enjoyed [but] to instruct, to inspire ... to make you uneasy about yourself. Any sermon that doesn't do that has misfired...
...girl he calls "the little woman." Ecstatic Jeanie Mauldin awaited him in a cheap little house in a drab neighborhood-the only place she could find in the housing shortage. She had lived on Bill's allotment, putting his earnings in the bank. With her was chubby Bruce Patrick, 21 months, the son Bill Mauldin had never seen...
Second, we have got to make constructive the criticisms that are justified, of things that are bad, sometimes very bad indeed. I want to pay tribute to General [Patrick] Hurley* and Donald Nelson in this respect. They got off to a wonderful start because they have been sympathetic and constructive as well as critical. Their approach was not, "Now, China, you are our problem. What shall we do with you?" But rather, "China, you have some problems. How can we help you with the problems? How can we help each other most?" There is a world of difference...