Word: pats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...took him aside for a long chat. For the rest of that day and the next and the next, cue-seekers passed in procession through the White House offices. Those interested in immediate or routine questions-inauguration ceremonies (Admiral Gary T. Grayson), CCC continuation (Director Fechner), tax revision (Senator Pat Harrison, Representative Bob Doughton), budget (Secretary Morgenthau, Chairman Eccles of the Federal Reserve)-got immediate answers. But Franklin Roosevelt, having waved aside for a whole month matters of second-term policy, gave no sign that he was ready promptly on return to give cues on such major projects as reviving...
...potency of Mr. Davies' political backing was indicated by the guests honoring him at a private dinner in Manhattan's Ritz-Carlton Hotel last week. With Senator Pat Harrison as honorary chairman and Senator James F. Byrnes as toastmaster, the list included Postmaster General Farley, Presidential Secretaries McIntyre and Early, Senators Barkley, Copeland, Davis, Duffy, McAdoo, Tycoons Walter P. Chrysler and Gerard Swope...
Long trounced at golf by President John J. Pelley of the Association of American Railroads have been White House Secretary Stephen Early, Mississippi's Senator Pat Harrison, Ohio's onetime Governor James Middleton Cox and Editor Merle Thorpe of Nation's Business. At the Miami-Biltmore course the vacationing losers plotted to hoax the winner. To Golfer Pelley they introduced Paul Runyan, onetime Professional Golfers Association champion, as "Mr. Paul, a young businessman from Muncie, Ind., with a handicap of eight." In the morning round Golfer "Paul" hooked his drives into the rough, flubbed his putts, shot...
...Sept. 12, 1935 and in the following issue flatteringly mentioned by TIME. If ridiculous half-dressed, I assumed that wholly nude excepting for a hat and cane he would be a very good symbol for the "Old Deal," those who, in both parties, were generally regarded as stand pat and conservative and for whom the donkey and elephant were useless as symbols. Nude indeed he was at first but several letters apprized me of the fact that the figure offended the sensibilities of too many. Without lessening his usefulness for my purpose, I gave him shorts and the ability...
...door-to-door circulation solicitor before the Star fell, who was elected president by his associates to head the six-man. Board of Directors which is made up of the paper's department heads. Editor who made the News-Herald well liked by Vancouverites was James Noel ("Pat") Kelly, born on the Isle of Man and a world wanderer until he settled in Vancouver. For world news, he figured correctly that the News-Herald could get along with the half-hour daily "pony" (telephone) United Press service from Portland. For local news, Editor Kelly gave his staff a definite...