Word: patrick
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...streets and inserting sewers therein, picked him for the practically honorary post (the Kelly-Nash machine gets all the upstate patronage, anyway). When he was tapped, McKeough spoke up with a lump in his throat: "Whatever I have accomplished in public life, I owe entirely to the Honorable Patrick "A. Nash, the greatest patriarch in the Democratic Party's history in all America...
...Cabinet rank to exchange for Deputy Prime Minister Walter ("Wai") Nash of New Zealand. To his surprise, he couldn't find one. So he dipped down into the Republican grab bag and came up with Herbert Hoover's old Secretary of War, angular but still handsome Patrick Jay Hurley...
...been one of the worst seasons in a generation. Such big names as Maxwell Anderson, Somerset Maugham, Kaufman & Ferber were rubbed out weeks ago. In over five months, not a single original play by a U.S. playwright has scored a real success. Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit and Patrick Hamilton's Angel Street are by Englishmen; Junior Miss is a hack dramatization of surefire short-story material. Only healthy child of Broadway this season is musicomedy, with Let's Face It!, Banjo Eyes, Sons o' Fun, Best Foot Forward, High Kickers...
...Patrick J. Sullivan, a Wheeling, W.Va. house painter, who does weird symbolic pictures naively depicting everything from contemporary politics to the vagaries of the human soul...
Died. Major General Mason Mathews Patrick, 78, first Chief of the Army Air Service; in Washington. General Pershing put him in charge of A.E.F. Air Force development in World War I; starting with a handful of "flying coffins," he boosted the force to 45 battle-worthy squadrons in 18 months. He trained as a flyer and qualified as a pilot when...