Word: patricks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rogers Memorial Hospital, who stood near a priest whom she did not know, but who casually asked her if she had ever noticed that Marquette's garb was incorrect. Though no Catholic, Dr. Nesbit was incensed, lost no time in lining up such good Catholics as Judge John Patrick McGoorty, Dennis Francis Kelly of The Fair store and Edward Aloysius Cudahy Jr. of the packing company to raise $200 to have Marquette's robe altered. Last week Dr. Nesbit's plans became public when Commissioner of Public Works Oscar Edwin Hewitt approved the project on condition that...
...parliamentary hero this week was the author of the bill, Punch'?, famed Humorist Alan Patrick Herbert, M. P., whose friends call him "Peck" while his public calls him "A. P. H." Not in many years has a private member's bill such as this been permitted by His Majesty's Government to win its way through the Lords and Commons, but in England divorce is still such a risky subject that Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain has been overjoyed not to have to touch this bill, fortunately presented by a sort of Court Jester to His Majesty...
Boycotting last week's auction were the Roman Catholic Brothers of the Christian Schools who have owned and run St. Mary's since 1868. Boycotting it also was St. Mary's chief ornament, wiry Football Coach Edward Patrick ("Slip") Madigan whose Galloping Gaels built their college's fortunes. When Slip Madigan went to St. Mary's from Notre Dame in 1921, the college was as puny as its football team, which had just been overwhelmed by the University of California 127-to-0. From 1924 to last year St. Mary...
...games, there was no one like Bull Moore. He was the best pool player in town. He could throw a baseball so fast it became invisible. He pitched for the St. Patrick's Church team and went south for a tryout with the Boston Braves. A big-time football coach saw him and sent him to preparatory school. Golf was Bull Moore's forte. His brother Harold, a church organist, was also a golf professional and had taught Bull the game. Bull would drive a ball out of sight and make any kind of trick shot with...
...Died. Patrick Joseph ("Pat") Haltigan, 74, longtime reading clerk of the U. S. House of Representatives; in Washington. Noted for his sonorous voice, Clerk Haltigan became famed during the 1924 Democratic Convention in New York. For the 17 days of the Smith-McAdoo deadlock he boomed out the roll call, beginning with Alabama's "24 votes for Underwood...