Word: pats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...immediately to his office, went upstairs to his dressing room. There with the aid of Boris, his valet, he put on formal morning clothes. At 2:15 Chief Usher Irwin Hood ("lke") Hoover knocked on his door. "The new Canadian Minister is here, Mr. President," he announced. A last pat to his necktie and President Hoover descended the stairs, entered the Blue Room, took a good solid stand near its centre. Usher Hoover threw open the door from the Green Room. In marched square-jawed half-bald William Duncan Herridge, hearty brother-in-law of Canada's Prime Minister...
...debt suspension must be voted by Dec. 15, the next international pay day, President Hoover was pressed to relax his opposition to a special session. Utah's Senator Reed Smoot estimated it would take six weeks to legislate on this matter. Mississippi's Democratic Senator Pat Harrison, so actively in favor of the Hoover plan that he called for a political armistice during its consideration, told the President the House would be tied up for weeks selecting a Speaker, advised him to call Congress into special session in late autumn. The Hoover head continued to shake in disapproval...
...Primo Camera, monstrous Italian heavyweight: a bout at Ebbets Field, Brooklyn; by knocking out one Pat Redmond, unknown and incapable Irishman, in the first round. Both giants moved ponderously about the ring. Camera pushing his great fist, Redmond pawing helplessly for less than a minute; then Camera upset his opponent with a well-aimed right to the jaw. Redmond arose unsteadily at the count of eight, went down and out a minute later under a curving left hook that literally wrapped about his jaw and chin. ¶ Aubrey Boomer. British pro for the St. Cloud Club, near Paris: the French...
...People now realize that the President has been the most stable force in U. S. business. He has stood pat. . . . The tendency to blame him for every cow that went dry has vanished. . . . The President has accomplished some difficult navigation in rough seas. More people have tried to rock the boat than usual in a depression. The boat rockers have succeeded in getting about everybody's feet wet but the President has seen to it that they haven't capsized the ship...
...faculty, he said: "My only regret in going is that I shall never be able to stand before another Baylor student body." On the campus students asked: "What's the latest?" and the reply came: "Condition unchanged." The Texas Legislature sent a message of sympathy. His oldtime roommate came, Pat Neff who, chairman of Baylor's board of trustees, was a likely choice as his successor...