Word: pats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...squabbles; 2) development of machines and mass production, outmoding many an old-time craft, changing the structure of industry and turning the vast majority of U. S. industrial workers into unskilled or semiskilled tenders of machines. The conservatives of A. F. of L. have met the change by standing pat, insisting that craftsmen in mass industries be divided up among the old-line unions. Hence the employes of a single big corporation would be split into some 25 factions...
Baldish, slight Howard Vincent ("Pat") O'Brien has acquired a high-flown reputation among Chicagoans for his mildly liberal musings on the editorial page of William Franklin Knox's Daily News. Last winter Columnist O'Brien made news by declaring that if his boss were elected President, he would of necessity follow the policies of Franklin D. Roosevelt once he got inside the White House (TIME, Dec. 2). Publisher Knox, then a good-natured candidate for the GOP nomination, was supposed to have been highly amused at this piece of intramural impertinence, let O'Brien...
Public Enemy's Wife (Warner) is another salty little treatise on the G-man, whose habits, indoors and out, are of such moment to Warner Brothers. Here the G-man (Pat O'Brien) and his partner (Robert Armstrong) are to be seen engaged in a man hunt for Gangster Gene Maroc (Cesar Romero) whom they expect to find loitering jealously near his ex-wife (Margaret Lindsay). The crisis of the picture arrives during a wedding ceremony which, planned as a trap for Gangster Maroc, fails when Maroc, instead of shooting the bridegroom, merely snickers at him from...
...retired magician I salute a fellow member of the ancient art of magic who performs in India under the name of Subbayah Pullavar and who thoroughly mystified P. T. Plunkett, the tea planter, and Pat Dove, the camera man, as well as the editorial staff of the Illustrated London News...
Lily Pons sang the Star-Spangled Banner. Protestant Episcopal Bishop Francis Marion Taitt pronounced a prayer. Senator Pat Harrison announced to Mr. Garner his renomination as Vice President. The Vice President answered in a brief speech of psalmodic inspiration...