Word: pats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hand for the celebration was the chief character of the Barn Dance, spry, crackly-voiced, cotton-chin-whiskered Uncle Ezra (dapper little Pat Barrett, 52), who greets the audience with "Howdy, evvabuddy," warms evvabuddy's heart with his cracker-barrel philosophy. Uncle Ezra was in Hollywood, to play in Bob Burns's forthcoming Comin' 'Round the Mountain. So Widow Winnie Whipple, whose ineffectual attempts to land Uncle Ezra furnish continuity of a sort for the program, exclaimed "Hollywood my left hind foot!" and wept that he should turn out to be "nothin...
When psalm-singing, radiorating Wilbert Lee ("Pass the Biscuits, Pappy") O'Daniel became Texas' 32nd Governor, he turned over his flour company to his two good-looking young sons, Pat and Mike. He also left them a sales idea that sounded sure-fire for Bible Belt sales of Hillbilly Flour: a tithe certificate with every sack. Purchasers of Hillbilly turned over the certificates to their churches as coupon shares in 10% of the profits of W. Lee O'Daniel Flour Co., reputed to have made Lee O'Daniel a comfortable fortune before he went to Austin...
...surprise was Lee O'Daniel's gesture of rescue for the soured promotion stunt. He gave the boys a tithe of his $12,000 salary as Governor, to be distributed to churches in 15 States. To his $1,200 Pat and Mike added $111 more, sent out checks to tithe-takers ranging from 5? to $24. Average church participation...
...Pelahatchee, Miss, postmistress. Six Governors (Kentucky's Keen Johnson, Georgia's Eurith D. Rivers, Mississippi's Paul Johnson, Tennessee's Prentice Cooper, Missouri's Lloyd Stark, Indiana's Clifford Townsend), one Governor-elect (Louisiana's Sam Jones) and four Texas ex-Governors (Pat Neff, Dan Moody, William Hobby and Jim Ferguson) greeted...
Alarmed were Chicago's bellicose Mayor Ed Kelly and Democratic National Committeeman Pat Nash. Mr. Kelly is 63, interested mainly in his work; older and wiser is Contractor, Horseowner Nash, whose interests, in order, are: 1) sewers, 2) stables, 3) politics. Sniffing Republican resurgence in the air, Messrs...