Word: patrick
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Patrick Dollan is a stern, old-fashioned Socialist and onetime conscientious objector who has presided since 1938 over Glasgow as Lord Provost (mayor) of Britain's most radical city. In a career of laird-baiting he has come to consider himself an expert on such families as that of the young Duke of Hamilton, on whose estate Rudolf Hess landed unexpectedly last month. Sir Pat claimed last week to have the lowdown on the Hess case. The "genuine truth," as he revealed it to a War Weapons Week audience in Fifeshire...
MANY MURDERS-Inez Haynes Irwin-Random House ($2). An epidemic of murder in a little New England town engages Patrick O'Brien, police chief, and his wife in some tough times with their friends. Good honest detecting with everything fitting tightly...
...Archbishop Francis Joseph Spellman of New York announced a Mass for the British in St. Patrick's Cathedral June 4 (which happens to have been the birthday of King George III). This is the first Mass for Britain in the history of the great church dedicated to Ireland's patron saint. It indicates a meaningful shift in Irish-American Catholic sentiment...
...Still more explicit was another Irish-American-Bishop Joseph Patrick Hurley of St. Augustine-who served at the Vatican from 1934 through the first year of World War II. Last week Bishop Hurley became the first prelate to declare openly that Naziism ("that rampant paganism which has plunged a continent into tears and blood") has replaced Communism as Public Enemy No. 1 of the Roman Catholic Church. "The foe of all we love, both as Americans and as Catholics, is the Nazi," said Bishop Hurley. "Communism is still our enemy but ... in point of urgency if not in point...
Married. Lieut. Cyril Patrick McCormack, son of plump, honey-voiced Tenor John McCormack; and Patricia Eccles; in Dublin. Tenor McCormack, now 56, emerged from "retirement" to sing two songs...