Word: patricks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days later, Lott & Stoefen had more trouble than they expected beating Harold George Newcombe Lee and George Patrick Hughes, 7-5, 6-0, 4-6, 9-7. The forlorn chance that the U. S. might repeat its performance of the week before disappeared next day when Perry beat Shields, 6-4, 4-6, 6-2, 15-13. In the last match of the series Austin beat Wood...
...used to be an invariable rule in Boston newspaper offices to identify a bustling young banker by the name of Joseph Patrick Kennedy as "the son-in-law of former Mayor John F. Fitzgerald." In 1914, on the strength of $5,000 he had cleared from a venture in a sight-seeing bus, the son of a Democratic ward boss married the daughter of Honey Fitz.* Good Catholics, the Kennedys had a child on the average of every two years, the ninth born in 1932. And when President Roosevelt remembered his old friend with a post on the Securities & Exchange...
...commission chairman, Mr. Roosevelt did not appoint one. But it was generally assumed that the man he named to the five-year term was his choice for that No. 1 job. The newly-appointed commissioners met in Washington next day and formally elected him chairman. That man was Joseph Patrick Kennedy...
Forty-five years ago three good Democratic wards in East Boston were bossed by a saloon-keeping politician named Patrick J. Kennedy. To "P. J." was born a son, Joseph, who went to Harvard and became a baseball player. After graduation in 1912, Joe turned down a job in the big leagues to try his hand in business. He and a friend bought a sightseeing bus for $1,200. The friend drove while Joe barked. They not only paid for their investment, but in the course of three seasons Joe cleared about $5,000. On the strength of that...
...painter; she was determined to go on the stage. A dissatisfiedschoolteacher in 1914, she wanted to do war work, was again prevented by her family. She saved ?20, quit her job and knocked on London stage doors, found them all shut. She became a governess, a dancing teacher. Mrs. Patrick Campbell watched her work, offered her a job. Three years of touring cured her. She worked in a London sandwich bar, taught elocution, began to write. Now a full-fledged author, she has written more than a dozen books, has lectured widely in the U. S. Matador (with Years...