Word: pats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...appears on the screen, the story of two nimble-wits (Pat O'Brien and Frank McHugh) who win a beauty contest with a composite photograph of Harlow, Garbo, Dietrich et al. and then palm off a dowdy chambermaid (Marion Davies) as their "original," turns out to be worth considerably less than the purchase price. Under Director Mervyn LeRoy, whose motto seems to have been "When in doubt, shout," Page Miss Glory becomes the noisiest comedy in months, with only Patsy Kelly as a morose chambermaid and Allen Jenkins as a kidnapper managing to give credible performances...
...Whom do you represent?" demanded Chairman Pat Harrison...
...Senator Pat Harrison emerged from the committeeroom rubbing his hands. "We have simply turned the bill into a revenue measure," he announced. By that he meant that it was expected to raise $464,000,000 instead of the $275,000,000 expected from the House bill...
...President Roosevelt, not Secretary Morgenthau, not Senate Finance Committee Chairman Pat Harrison, not Share-the-Wealther Huey Long, in fact hardly anyone except the rawboned, 6 ft.-2 in. North Carolina mountaineer who is Chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee had a good word to say in public for the measure. Against Chairman Doughton's loyal but half-hearted defense rose the critical outcry of thousands of Republicans, businessmen, plain citizens. Declared Republican Ways & Means Committeemen in their minority report...
...Virgin Islands squabble had now been inflated to the point where it required direct intervention by the President of the U. S. Insignificant was the actual issue beside the major intra-Administration battle it had provoked. At Secretary Ickes' throat were not merely Senators Tydings and Pat Harrison, patron of T. Webber Wilson, but the entire Senate afire with stored-up resentment at the Secretary's blunt, tactless refusal to play political ball. Likewise ranged against their fellow Cabinet officer were "Generals" Farley and Cummings. But the dogged little Secretary of the Interior stood undaunted against the field...