Word: pats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week ended on a gory note struck by marcel-haired Pat McCarran of Nevada, known to the ungrateful press as "Old Bleeding Heart" for his practice of making important speeches as if each were his last on earth. Said McCarran...
When Coca-Cola's meek, mild Vice President and Secretary George T. Adams got a mysterious call from Washington, he examined his conscience, found it clean. Like many another U. S. businessman, he nonetheless half-expected a scolding. Instead he received a pat on the head. Said the Army Ordnance Department: "We want Coca-Cola to build and manage a bag loading plant...
Coca-Cola first thought the jump from bottling to bagging incongruous, suggested it could work better with drugs, foods or chemicals. But the Army stood pat. It had made a study of management, found Coca-Cola on its first preferred master list, must put Coca-Cola to work at once. Coca-Cola saw the moral-no industry is exempt from defense-and concurred...
...Pat McCarran, Democrat of Nevada, described the tragedy as "legalized murder" and demanded enactment of his bill to re-establish the CAA and the Air Safety Board as independent agencies. The Safety Board was abolished and the CAA became a commerce department unit under a presidential reorganization order which became effective last July...
...Sutton, finds Canada hard to handle, but Gene Tierney is a pushover for anybody. Several classic fisty scenes and some robust humor heavily handed out by Radisson's clum, Gooseberry, cover this necessary Valentine-exchanging well enough. You come out onto Washington Street with an almost insuppressible desire to pat everybody on the back and tell them what a beautiful world it is after all. You know that Muni has done it again...