Word: pats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...November 1945, while still Ambassador to China, publicly attacked the U.S.'s China policy less than two hours after he had been amiably discussing the Chinese situation with Truman. At that point, said Truman, "I realized that Hurley would have to go." In a 16-page rebuttal, Pat Hurley claimed that he had resigned before attacking Truman's China policy, charged Truman with inventing "mythical conferences, mythical fierce speeches and synthetic quotations." Then Hurley went on to lay the blame for the fall of China on Truman. "Throughout his memoirs and public utterances," snorted Pat Hurley, "the former...
...Ticknor's pre-season neck injury will prevent his playing this spring, and Martin Lindsay's unhealed shoulder separation has cut the South African contingent to three: Lionel Bryer, John Chalsty, and Pat Latham...
...more complaints. The public was well pleased when McGinnis began a program of improving and enlarging the parking lots at suburban stations. Then he announced a monthly parking charge of $5.50 a car. While the customers howled over what amounted to a concealed hike in their commutation-ticket fares. Pat McGinnis turned the affair into a real Donnybrook with a speech in Norwalk. "Because I want to charge a lousy five bucks," he roared, "people act as though I've torn up the tracks. There's going to be parking at every station, and if it costs...
Recently, Pat McGinnis has shown a new and surprising reluctance to comment in public. He stubbornly refused the demand of the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities that he appear at its hearings, sent along a posse of glib lieutenants instead. While the Boston hearings were in progress. Archbishop Richard J. Gushing publicly offered up a prayer to "have our railroads run regularly on time and comfortably...
...Coverage. The Times gave the hearings the kind of full, deadpan coverage its readers expect, letting the story run from 4 to 5½ columns a day. But on the editorial page it angrily attacked the Eastland subcommittee and Counsel Sourwine, a protege of Nevada's late Senator Pat McCarran, with the kind of fighting words its readers rarely see. The editorial, "The Voice of a Free Press," brought hundreds of letters from readers (8 to 1 in favor). Excerpts...