Word: pats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fill the vacancies left by the death of Mississippi's well-loved "Old Fox" Pat Harrison (TIME, June 30) and the appointment of Jimmy Byrnes to the Supreme Court, the Senate's Democratic Steering Committee did a neat shuffle, came up with one of the strongest Administration teams the Senate has seen in years. Main purpose of the shuffle was to keep the Finance Committee chairmanship from falling into the isolationist hands of Massachusetts' David Ignatius Walsh, Naval Affairs' chairmanship into the anti-New Deal hands of Maryland's Millard Tydings, keep Administration...
...proposal to make joint returns mandatory for husbands & wives who live together (TIME, July 21). But a band of 15 Senators, mostly Westerners from States which have a community-property law (permitting family income to be divided equally between husband & wife for income-tax purposes), chose grey-maned Pat McCarran of Nevada to lead the fight...
...thorough realist, Sir Stafford would be the last man in the world to pat himself on the back. For months his job has been to sit outside the Kremlin walls, waiting for a break between Germany and Russia, based on their mutual fear. The actual negotiation was done by Hitler's invading armies...
...Rockefeller has told President Roosevelt that the U.S. would have to keep up its exports to Latin America-defense program or no-or take a back seat to the Axis. Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles agreed. But OPM's Ed Stettinius and OPACS' Leon Henderson stood pat against any exports that would take materials away from defense or essential civilian needs. Now the Presidential nod has gone to Rockefeller (partly because a Nazi freighter recently slipped through the blockade, delivered an airplane and parts which Brazil's Vasp line needed and the U.S. had failed...
Most shifts in British Command are easily passed over-with a grave pat on the back for the deposed man, three cheers and a tiger for the new one. But last week's shift, involving the greatest British military hero of the war, could not be tossed off lightly. Winston Churchill got into a dreadful row with Leslie Hore-Belisha for failing to explain the exchange. Observers were left to discover their own explanations for the shift. It was not difficult...