Word: pats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...opponent, hustling James Oliver Eastland, a wealthy lawyer-planter, was too critical of the Senate. The voters, themselves highly critical of the Senate, promptly sent 37-year-old Eastland there again-he had previously occupied Doxey's seat (for 88 days) as Governor-appointed successor to the late Pat Harrison...
With or without Stalingrad and the Volga, the Red Army would fight on. The question was how it would fight, how effectively to preserve the rest of Russia, how potently as an ally of the United Nations. There were no pat answers. Hitler had not achieved his maximum objective: destruction of the Red Army. But his minimum objective constituted a great victory for Germany, a great threat to the Allied cause...
...last week's strength Wall Street had two pat reasons: 1) most utility stocks are undervalued on the basis of assets and earnings; 2) the SEC's recent dissolution orders (under the "Death Sentence" Act of 1935) may eliminate enough corporate red tape and legal flimflam to enhance the value of outstanding preferred shares...
Occasion for Monsignor Ready's remarks was a Senate committee hearing on a bill introduced by Nevada's Pat McCarran to exempt about half the Washington religious property recently returned to the tax rolls. The McCarran bill would exempt only schools and churches, leaving other educational and religious institutions a target for taxes...
...Tribune city room all but forgot its deadlines. When tall, black-moustached Reporter Stanley Johnston, author of the June 7 story, walked in, the staff rose and cheered. It cheered again at the entrance of balding little Managing Editor James Loy ("Pat") Maloney. Then Colonel Robert R. McCormick appeared at the door, statement in hand. As one man, the whole room roared. The colonel blinked and said: "There never has been a bunch like the Tribune bunch. As I have told you before, every member of the Tribune is a member of my family...