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Then the "dead" father turns up, the mere bandaged victim of a whack on the head; and Christy sinks from a hero to a butt. To regain his stature, he tries to murder his "da" all over again; but to Pegeen, a dirty squabble in her own backyard is something quite unlike derring-do at a distance. She scorns to marry Christy; and he, now bossing his father as fiercely as his father once bossed him, sets off with the old man, from Ireland's "Western World," for home...
...knew as well as any Republican that the Democrats did not have a prayer to win New York state unless they could pile up a huge majority in heavily Jewish New York City. Through the political grapevine, the President also knew that Tom Dewey was going to take a whack at Democratic handling of the Palestine question...
Ineligible for the trophy, freshmen will nevertheless be able to take an occasional whack at their more erudite brethren from across Massachusetts Avenue, Freshmen squads will also compete against each other in another aspect of the intramural program...
Within earshot of workmen's tools, the master of the White House spent a week heavy with routine work, light of newsmaking action. He was clearly pessimistic over getting the kind of OPA bill he wants out of the Senate-House stalemate. He took a whack at Congress by predicting that prices would go higher without a price control...
Inside the hotel, a businessman audience applauded Martin's whack at Commerce Secretary Henry Wallace's philosophies. Said the tall, 64-year-old Governor: "When a politician promises he can make a law that will create 60,000,000 jobs, he is guilty of a cruel and heartless falsehood. . . . You cannot pass a law that will bring about production. . . . Only enterprise can create employment. . . . Free enterprise is the property of no political party...