Word: pats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With Calvin Coolidge. whom he admired tremendously and whose frequent White House guest he was, he indulged in long intimate hours of what Senator Pat Harrison called "political mumblety-peg." Senator Fess was bitterly disappointed when President Coolidge refused to run for a third term, was more responsible than anyone else for keeping alive the "Draft Coolidge" movement. Having declared that "The Republican Party cannot accept an internationalist as its standard bearer," Senator Fess was defeated in 1928 as an anti-Hoover delegate to the Republican national convention, of which he had been designated keynoter. But at Kansas City...
...Jewish soap manufacturer (Joseph Cawthorne ) lets his wife, niece and cousins run his programs. Twenty Million Sweet lie arts mostly concerns a fatuous singing waiter (Dick Powell) who becomes a celebrated crooner. Discovered singing "The Man on the Flying Trapeze'' by a brash, noisy scout (Pat O'Brien), the waiter fails dismally at his audition, later gets another chance when aided by a soap-hour singer (Ginger Rogers). The two love but are separated by O'Brien who does not wish to alienate Powell's 20,000,000 admirers. When Ginger Rogers once more helps...
...Washington, Representative Tom Cullen from the sidewalks of Brooklyn's Red Hook district, Senator Walter George from cotton-picking Georgia, Senator William King from silver-mining Utah and, most important of all. the two chiefs of the conference-for the Senate, a shrewd lawyer from Gulfport, Miss, named Pat Harrison and for the House a leathery old farmer from the hills of North Carolina named Robert Doughton...
Between the bill which Representative Doughton and his Ways & Means colleagues spent all last autumn working over and the bill which the Senate, under Pat Harrison's guidance, carved out in three weeks of debate there was a difference of $220,000,000-in revenue for the Treasury, in taxes for taxpayers. The House and Senate bills simply bracketed the field within which the ten conferees were to agree upon a final compromise law acceptable to both chambers...
...advantage over the employers was slipping. Soon their talk of an industry-wide walkout would lose its bite. Easy-going Dr. Leo Wolman's Automobile Labor Board, appointed by the President to settle the industry's collective bargaining problem, infuriated the labor organizers by giving them no pat decision to reject or accept. The Board, however, did begin a careful survey of the union status (company or A. F. of L.) of thousands of automobile workers to determine accurately the question of representational apportionment in individual motor plants. In disgust, Fisher Body employes in St. Louis chucked their...