Word: pats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kenneth McKellar, a man who never forgives and never forgets. There was hardly a Senator who was not also thinking about some patronage jobs-a federal judgeship, a spot as U.S. attorney-or some legal claim in his own state. All such matters have to be approved by Pat McCarran's Judiciary Committee. And McCarran was also McKellar's right bower on the Appropriations Committee...
...Leader Scott Lucas had led the successful bipartisan drive to pass an EGA bill without the crippling amendments written into it by McKellar's Appropriations Committee. Example: McCarran's proposal to give $50 million to Franco's Spain. Victorious in that fight, Lucas then turned on Pat McCarran...
Visiting Democrat. Majority Leader Lucas offered McCarran one last chance to report out some kind of D.P. bill-even if it was the shabby bill which McCarran himself had proposed." When would he be ready? Replied Pat: "Probably not before next May." Well, what if the committee reported out the McCarran bill anyhow? Pat hit the ceiling. "I would be forced to oppose my own bill," he roared. "I have been gathering a lot of material on this question for weeks. I have enough to fill the Congressional Record from now to next Christmas...
Then there was garrulous Ambassador Pat Hurley reporting to Washington:"The Communists are not in fact Communists; they are striving for democratic principles." (That was a judgment made in wartime. But Hurley soon changed his mind, fought hard and successfully against State Department officials who wanted to arm the Communist "agrarian democrats...
...true niece of Bertie McCormick, Bazy could not resist a pat on the back for the Midwest as "the heart and soul and stability of the country" and the back of her hand for Washington, which she called "a parasite community." But she thought it her duty to settle among the parasites. As Bertie said: he and Bazy owed it to the U.S.-at a time when "the Administration and the State Department are disloyal"-to present "the American point of view in Washington...