Word: connore
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Head of the expedition was Major General Richard Nugent O'Connor, a Scot with an Irish name, who won a silver medal from the Italians for valor on the Piave Italian front in 1917. Sir Henry Maitland ("Jumbo") Wilson, Commander of the forces in Egypt, had planned this whole adventure on his flower-crowded island in the Nile at Cairo with General Sir Archibald Wavell, Commander in Chief of the Army of the Middle East, who blessed it with a ringing Order of the Day: ". . . In everything but numbers we are superior to the enemy. We are more highly...
...Others: Frank R. Fageol, president of Twin Coach Co., Crooner Morton Downey, Nassau Real Estate Man Harold Christie, Manhattan Architect John Sloan, Treasurer of the Banco Fiduciario de Mexico John R. O'Connor, Engineer Gustavo L. Trevino of Mexico City, President William O'Neil of General Tire & Rubber...
William T. Pheiffer, 42, Republican, of New York's famed Gashouse (16th) District, beat James H. Fay, New Dealer, who purged Old Dealer John J. O'Connor in 1938. Pheiffer and Republicans were stunned by his victory. Pheiffer was unknown, a Texan, a lawyer, a 21-month Republican resident of a sure Tammany district. It looked suspiciously as if Tammany, not liking New Dealer Fay, had decided to hand the district over for two years to a Republican...
...show itself, great tribute was paid to the Carnegie Director of Fine Arts Homer Saint-Gaudens, distinguished-looking under his shock of grey hair and the burden of his sculptor father's great name. Assistant Director John O'Connor Jr. was the man who did most of the work. Despite the fact that it was primitively lighted and awkwardly arranged, the show was a top-notch survey of U. S. art, eclipsing even the fine one put on two summers ago by the Metropolitan Museum in Manhattan...
Johnny turns out to be dodging the law for an old murder charge. His flight dumps him into the outwardly grim but inwardly golden presence of Hap O'Connor (Pat O'Brien), a straw boss in charge of a gang of roughnecks who shuttle from field to field drilling wells. When Johnny saves Hap's life they become friends, exchange cigarets, seldom smile. Hap's girl Linda (Frances Farmer) hates Johnny because he calls her "freckle nose," but that is only a prelude to romance. Hap turns on Johnny for pilfering Linda, but the triangle...