Word: patrick
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Patrick's Day the President outdid himself in his annual curtsy to the Irish vote. He went beyond the regular green tie to appear resplendent in green tweed suit, green-striped tie and green carnation, a pot of green shamrocks and a green cat on his desk...
...bagpipe skirled in all Ireland, said dispatches; Dublin pubs were shuttered. Quarantined Eire wore her shamrocks grimly. But in the U.S. the transplanted Irish kept St. Patrick's memory green. The customary twist was given the British lion's tail. Parades, pageants and Irish wit decorated...
Newspaper competition comes next week to war-big San Diego (estimated pop. 390,000; 1940 pop. 203-341). Clinton Dotson McKinnon announced that the first edition of his New Dealish evening Journal would be published on St. Patrick's Day (because his mother was Irish). The Journal will break the San Diego general newspaper monoply of rich, myopic, 79-year-old Colonel Ira Clifton Copley owner of the arch-Republican morning Union (circ. 44,359) and evening Tribune-Sun (circ...
...great doors of the nation's most famed Catholic edifice, St. Patrick's Cathedral in Manhattan, dripped with painted hammer-&-sickles last week. Two of the bright red symbols faced fine-feathered Fifth Avenue; two shone from doors on the side, and two from the walls. The sacristan found them there in the morning as he prepared to open the cathedral for early Mass, and called police. Same morning the same red symbols were splotched on the walls of two other Catholic churches in the city. (Several Manhattan synagogues had previously blossomed with swastikas...
...brilliant Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr is Finance Minister of South Africa, heir apparent to 73-year-old Prime Minister Jan Christiaan Smuts. Hofmeyr is also part owner of the Forum, South Africa's only liberal weekly. Last week the Forum's editor and Hofmeyr's protege, John Patrick Cope, pricked open two of the Union's deepest sores, proposed a radical cure...