Word: patricks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...busied himself meeting and talking with his welcomers. Among them were Nevada's Governor Fredrick Bennett Balzar, California's Governor James ("Sunny Jim") Rolph Jr., Reno's Mayor Edward Ewing Roberts, Justice Edward Ducker of the Nevada Supreme Court, onetime District Attorney William Boyle, Divorce Lawyer Patrick McHarran...
...from Washington's Boiling Field last week soared a big Army plane carrying Secretary of War Patrick Jay Hurley on the first leg of his journey to the Philippines. The same day on the other side of the globe Missouri's Senator Harry Bartow ("Beets") Hawes sailed from Manila for the U. S. via China. During his six-week visit to the islands Senator Hawes had united a great mass of Filipinos for immediate independence, whipped their enthusiasm for freedom to the highest pitch in years. It was now Secretary Hurley's mission to find deft ways...
...prize-fighting's many trite adages says that a good big man can beat a good little one. The fight between Jack Sharkey (Josef Paul Cuckoschay) and Michael Patrick ("Mickey") Walker in Boston last week seemed designed to be one more illustration of this adage. Sharkey, a 198-lb. heavyweight, was still considered a good fighter despite sloppy performances against Risko, Christner, Stribling, Scott and World's Heavyweight Champion Max Schmeling. The New York State Boxing Commission considered him good enough to call heavyweight champion of the U. S. Mickey Walker was welterweight, then middleweight champion before...
...doubles, Cochet and his partner Jacques ("Toto") Brugnon had less trouble than the score, 6-1, 5-7, 6-3, 8-6, implied against Irish George Patrick Hughes and Charles H. Kingsley, former Oxford team captain, who used to give Perry a rest before his match with Cochet...
...Davis Cup team reached the challenge round. When the British Davis Cup team played the U. S. at Stade Roland Garros, Paris, last week, it was almost a foregone conclusion that little dignified Herbert Wilbur (''Bunny") Austin, Frederick Perry and Perry's Irish doubles partner, George Patrick Hughes, would speedily lose a majority of their five matches. Their opponents were Sidney B. Wood Jr., who won the British championship at Wimbledon fortnight ago; his good friend Francis Xavier Shields who defaulted to him in the Wimbledon finals; and George Lott Jr. & John Van Ryn, Wimbledon doubles winners...