Word: patrick
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Secretary of War Patrick Jay Hurley jumped from Reserve colonel to brigadier general by nomination of Franklin D. Roosevelt. His assignment was not immediately revealed, but the White House said he would not be a line officer...
Died. H.R.H. Prince Arthur William Patrick Albert, Duke of Connaught and of Strathearn, and Earl of Sussex, 91, last surviving son of Queen Victoria; in Bagshot Park, England. Godson of the Duke of Wellington, in his youth he was called "The Soldier Prince," entered Woolwich Military Academy at 16, pursued an active military career for more than 40 years. He was Governor General of Canada from 1911 to 1916. He rejected three thrones during his lifetime: Saxe-Coburg & Gotha (1899), Czecho-Slovakia (1915), Hungary...
...20th Century-Fox. Now it's Kathleen, unhappy daughter of a widower (Herbert Marshall) who neglects her, the rebellious charge of a governess who maltreats her. Of course, Miss Temple rights all wrongs by getting rid of the governess, of her father's butterfly fiancee (Gail Patrick), and by marrying daddy off to her nice new governess (Laraine...
...yard free style--Won by Bullard (B); second, Davis (H); third, Fitz-patrick (H), Time...
That was just the beginning - after the first aerial assault that had told them the show was on. Bantam (5 ft. 5 in.) Major James Patrick Sinnott Devereux, the detachment commander, returned a Marine's answer: "Come and get us." The Jap got another answer. Somehow, either by bombardment from the four fighter planes still on the island (eight had been smashed by the enemy) or by fire from his six 5-in. guns, little Jimmie Devereux sank the cruiser and one of the destroyers. He reported it tersely to Honolulu. Later he reported his men had sunk...