Word: pats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plastic rims, a grey Homburg hat. He pushed open the right-hand door to the Executive offices (the left is always locked), walked over the black-and-white checkered linoleum, around the Philippine red narra table and back to the President's office. He gave his hat to Pat McKenna, ancient doorguard, and walked...
Last week came the run-off Democratic primary for the Governorship. Once more the lineups were twisted unbelievably. Now Pat Harrison was supporting Mike Conner, a man he had denounced up and down the State in 1936. Now "The Man" Bilbo was supporting Paul Burney Johnson, whom he had denounced sporadically ever since 1918, when Johnson whipped him in a race for a House seat. Governor White laid off, laid cables for 1940 when he wants Bilbo's Senate seat...
Bilbo's man Johnson won by a solid margin, 162,688-to-136,264. Pat Harrison, unembarrassed by jibes at his constant switching, was now embarrassed in the way a politician best understands it. Apparently faded were his hopes of appearing at the 1940 Democratic National Convention in a good trading position as Mississippi's Favorite Son, for now Bilbo and Johnson will have first say in naming Mississippi's 18 delegates. And "The Man," long-standing Third Termite for Franklin Roosevelt, could lounge happily on the green satin chairs of his lonesome 25-room mansion near...
...Pat Johnson shows the boys how to tie each other into pretzels in the wrestling room. For those who follow the physical contact sports, this provides an opportunity to develop muscle and bodily coordination, and to engage in intercollegiate competition...
...followed where Harry Sinclair led. Standard of New Jersey, Atlantic Refining Co., many another big operator stood pat. Within a few days Sinclair Refining had to drop its price to the old levels in the marketing areas of all the other big companies...