Word: pats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dramatic but, as expected, it made trouble. Attorney General Wilentz, in a lather of righteous fury, demanded that the films be withdrawn "in the name of decency," threatened contempt proceedings. Fox, Hearst Metrotone, Paramount and all Loew's theatres obeyed. Universal and Pathe, after three days, still stood pat. Scooped by the newsreels, the tabloid New York Daily News and Hearst's Journal tried to catch up by splashing still shots from the films over several pages. Genuinely shocked and grieved by what he considered a violation of a gentlemen's agreement, Judge Trenchard ousted not only...
Last week President Roosevelt received another complaint about his Secretary of the Interior, this time from Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi. The point at issue was Mr. Ickes' antipolitical administration of the Virgin Islands. Secretary Ickes had insisted that Paul Martin Pearson, sexagenarian Chautauqua organizer appointed by Herbert Hoover as Governor of the Virgin Islands, should not be removed to make room for a deserving Democrat. Senator Harrison had a job-seeking friend named T. (for Thomas) Webber Wilson of Mississippi who in 1928 gave up a seat in the House to run for the Senate and lost. Lest...
Considerably gentled has been Senator Bilbo since he arrived in Washington. Under Senator Pat Harrison's patronage he has been named the ranking new member of every committee he wanted-Agriculture & Forestry, Commerce, District of Columbia, Library. Since Senator Harrison is a friend of Chairman Sykes it was doubtful if Senator Bilbo's vindictiveness would accomplish its purpose. Nevertheless, The Man Bilbo began to make good on his campaign vow last week when he addressed a letter to the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee, urging that Judge Sykes's appointment as Communications Commissioner be denied confirmation. Some Bilboisms...
...accompanying feature. "I Sell Anything," is good in proportion to your love for Pat O'Brien...
...Texas a black buck known as Lead Belly murdered a man. He sang a petition to Governor Pat Neff and was granted a pardon. Back in the Louisiana swamplands, where he was born Huddie Ledbetter, his knife made more trouble. He was in State Prison at Angola when John A. Lomax, eminent ballad collector, stopped by last summer and asked the warden if he could please hear Lead Belly sing...