Word: patrick
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great a toll Allied planes and submarines had exacted of Japanese merchant shipping could only be estimated from the combat-colored reports of returning pilots and submarine skippers. Last week Secretary of the Navy Knox, in a St. Patrick's Day speech in Manhattan, guessed that 1,857,000 gross tons had been sunk, out of a prewar tonnage of 6,369,000. Knox hastily added that half the probable loss had been replaced by new construction, salvage and seizure of foreign vessels in Asiatic ports. Net Jap loss: about 14% of her merchant marine...
Dreamer. In Ann Arbor, Mich., hospital attendants did what they could for Private Patrick Pisula, who had imitated "the man in the circus" at a bar, taken a couple of bites out of a glass, tried hard to swallow a knife...
Brigadier General Patrick Jay Hurley had disappeared from Washington again last week. His friends assumed that he was off once more on a mysterious war errand for the President. Washington could not get over the spectacle of Pat Hurley, every bit as anti-New Deal as his old boss Herbert Hoover, turning out to be one of Franklin Roosevelt's trusted lieutenants. Since Pearl Harbor General Hurley had spanned six continents as the President's special representative...
...undergraduate squad will boast of Varsity stars, Dean Hennessey and George Dillon, as well as Jayvee members, Bob Bunten, Don Gesson, and Henry Moulton. The idea of NROTC basketball squads was conceived by Chief Technician Frank Patrick, former All American football player at Pitt and head of Navy Sci athletics, and heartily approved by Captain G. W. Barker, head of both the ROTC...
...Alan Patrick) Herbert, wag, Senior Member of Parliament for Oxford University and Britain's most whimsical reformer, has embarked on a new crusade.* Bedridden with a bad foot late last year, Herbert did not count wallpaper patterns but renamed the stars. He found their old names "queer, unworthy and inept." He has renamed some 300 stars, for a starter...