Word: sinnott
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Nicholas John Sinnott, 59, of The Dalles, Ore., member of the U. S. Court of Claims; in Washington, D. C.; of heart failure...
...Canadian police court and it is also asserted, on poorer authority, that some of the incidents in his play will be discussed in a temple of justice far closer to Broadway. Said Burns Mantle, able critic to the N. Y. Daily News: "Hoist the warnings! Go tell Jimmie Sinnott, the mayor's censor!* The prostitutes are back...
...tale to this effect was telegraphed throughout the land. Next day, Representative Sinnott, of Oregon said the tale was correct except that Correspondent Brown had nothing to do with it. He, Sinnott, had managed the whole joke...
...Hylan never made a remark of that kind in her life. She is able and thoroughly capable of deporting herself in any place as the occasion demands. . . . With all her duties as a good wife and mother, as well as her special interest in her grandchildren, little John Hylan Sinnott and Marie Louise, she was always mindful of her duties as the wife of the Mayor, and few women probably read more than she does or are better posted regarding politics and public affairs or the proper conduct of men and women on all occasions...
...McGowan also read a Supreme Court decision to the effect that Congress was presumed to know the rules of grammar. This inspired Chairman Sinnott to remark (not for the record) : "We ought to give this Judge a raise in salary...