Word: patricks
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When the Merchant Marine Act of 1936 was approved by Congress last summer it established a U. S. Maritime Commission, empowered it to manage U. S. shipping and to investigate and report upon the shape of things to come. Fortnight ago, Commission Chairman Joseph Patrick Kennedy presented such a reckoning (TIME, Nov. 22). Last week he made another report, not on sea ships but on the relation of sea ships to airships. To many a landlubber the second report may seem like a Utopian dream, except that it also bears the earmarks of Joe Kennedy's hard-headed eagerness...
...released his long-awaited report on the U. S. merchant marine in Washington last week, Joseph Patrick Kennedy declared "This is the toughest job I ever handled in my life, without any reservations whatever." Mr. Kennedy has had tough jobs before, including organization of the Securities Exchange Commission, but even a quick glance at the official summary, briefed down to 17 pages, was enough to convince reporters that Mr. Kennedy spoke with feeling and sincerity. The report itself was a monumental document of 40,000 words. No desiccated aggregation of charts and tabulation, it was a bluntly dispassionate analysis...
Precise, neat Actor Arliss was Mrs. Patrick Campbell's leading man in 1901, has since assumed well-bred heroic proportions in the cinema. His next role may be a screen portrait of the late John D. Rockefeller. His well-wishers, meanwhile, are urging a fitting cinememorial, The Life of George Arliss, with Mr. Paul Muni...
...football schedules, combined to make the Pitt-Notre Dame game the most important of the week. At the end of the third period Notre Dame, although consistently outplayed, had a 6-to-0 lead. In the fourth period the weary Notre Dame defense collapsed. Pittsburgh's Goldberg, Stebbins & Patrick swiftly marched to three touchdowns and Souchak unerringly kicked each extra point. Score...
Died. Francis Patrick Garvan, 62, one-time U. S. Alien Property Custodian, founder (1919) of Chemical Foundation. Inc., which gained control of the U. S. post-War chemistry by paying the Government $271,850 for seized German chemical and dye patents; of pneumonia; in Manhattan...