Word: patrick
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME erred. Many a Founding Father-Samuel Adams, Patrick Henry, Elbridge Gerry, Alexander Hamilton-flatly assumed that any law inconsistent with the Constitution would be voided by the courts. Even Thomas Jefferson, butt of John Marshall's extra-legal lecture in the Marbury v. Madison case, expressly admitted the Court's right to decide constitutionality of laws, although he unflaggingly criticized the Court until his death...
Died. Dr. Mary Mills Patrick, 89, president emerita of the Istanbul Women's College; of a heart attack; in Palo Alto, Calif...
Impish Alan Patrick Herbert, top-notch Punch humorist and jackanapes No. 1 of the House of Commons, bolted early breakfast one morning last week, hustled over to reach Westminster at 8 a.m. wearing an expectant grin. Other M. P.s, equally eager to squeeze into their House, which is much too small to seat all of them, were already jampacked around the door. They half-hoped that Leslie Hore-Belisha, recently ousted British War Secretary (TIME, Jan. 15), would clash with Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain in the first really hot House of Commons debate since outbreak...
...Until the resignation of War Secretary Leslie Hore-Belisha, Britain's Air Force in France was divided into: 1) Army Cooperation units under Vice Marshal C. H. B. Blount, who took orders from the Army's General the Viscount Gort; 2) Advanced Striking Force under Vice Marshal Patrick Playfair, who was responsible to R. A. F. headquarters in London. Last week all were united under Air Marshal Arthur Sheridan Barratt, responsible only to Sir Cyril Newall, Britain's air chief...
...referred to the Hon. Unity Valkyrie Freeman-Mitford. Last week her return to Britain on a stretcher roused such public excitement that the War Office sent soldiers with rifles to keep unauthorized persons off the landing quay at Folkestone. Up in rock-ribbed Scotland the Lord Provost of Glasgow, Patrick Joseph Dollan, snorted: "It is simply disgusting that this attention should be paid to a little flapper who really ought to have her pants spanked instead of getting publicity." When Unity was delayed two days in reaching Folkestone, popular excitement touched fever pitch and her father, Insurance Tycoon Lord Redesdale...