Word: pats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bluff T. Webber Wilson laid down his big strong cigar, breezed up in a clean white suit to tell the committee his tale of difficulty and discouragement at the hands of the "Pearsonites." T. (for Thomas) Webber Wilson, onetime Congressman from Mississippi whom Senator Pat Harrison, not entirely unselfishly, rescued from political limbo with a Federal judgeship in the Islands, had previously distinguished himself by proceeding in the face of bitter opposition to prosecute a quadroon PWA clerk named Mclntosh for pilfering $38.40 worth of Government cement and lumber. Last week it developed that fierce discord had also arisen between...
...voice of an angry bull and an equal amount of courage. But when it comes to wheedling buck privates who can no longer be driven, to using astute finagling to bring men into line, then Franklin Roosevelt has to rely on men like Mississippi's artful Pat Harrison and shrewd Vice President Garner...
...Cabinet deal transferred the Islands' Federal judgeship from the Interior Department to the Justice Department. Thereupon Mississippi's Senator Pat Harrison persuaded Attorney General Cummings to give the job to T. (for Thomas) Webber Wilson, a Mississippi Democrat who had lost his seat in the House by running, unsuccessfully, for the Senate. Negro-wise Judge Wilson soon roused the Islanders' fury against Governor Pearson to fever pitch. Looming up as a likely successor if Pearson could be dislodged, he made national news by pouncing on poor Quadroon Mclntosh. Acting as combined prosecutor, jury & judge, Judge T. Webber Wilson denounced...
...they ran away; he put them in St. Louis University, but they quickly got back to the hunting grounds that made them happy. Still a youngster, Miguel met Wild Bill, Bat Masterson, Mysterious Dave Mathers, Texas Jack, Buffalo Bill, Calamity Jane, Doc Holliday, Billy the Kid, Jesse James, Pat Garrett, Clay Allison and dozens of the dance hall girls, known only by first names such as Liz,. Dolly, Steamboat, Trix, whom he was to recall pleasantly 60 years later...
After the war the songwriter from Maine plugged on at music. He wrote When Johnny Comes Marching Home, Sweet Evalina, If Your Foot Is Pretty, Show It. He toured for a time as cornetist in Pat Gilmore's Band. Then, when middleaged, his Yankee blood asserted itself and he turned to banking. But with all his fine clothes and his fashionable mustachios, he continued to hobnob with musicians, hover around publishing offices. On one such occasion he encountered Stephen Foster who whistled the melody of Old Folks at Home ("Suwannee River") while Bishop set down the notes and scored...