Word: patricks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...William Campbell led 900 Colonial backwoodsmen up Kings Mountain to rout the entrenched "Loyalist" forces of Col. Patrick Ferguson. Significance: this victory turned the tide of the Revolution in the South toward Yorktown and ultimate success...
...will soon get a fifth cardinal, according to last week's Vatican City despatches, to rank with William Henry O'Connell (Boston), Denis Joseph Dougherty (Philadelphia), George William Mundelein (Chicago), Patrick Joseph Hayes (New York City). The candidate in Pope Pius XI's mind is "from an archdiocese toward the West." That points to Edward Joseph Hanna, 70, Archbishop of San Francisco...
Nominee Cross's first act to prove his political mastery was to have Patrick Brett O'Sullivan, onetime Congressman, named chairman of the State Committee and Joseph H. Tone, secretary. Promising the Republicans "a whale of a fight," he hurried back to his Yale Review office at New Haven, prepared for an old-fashioned "cracker barrel" campaign...
...Died. Patrick Joseph Tuohy, 36, able one-armed painter of the Irish artistic revolution, for five years a student under Sir William Orpen who called him "the best painter Ireland has produced in generations"; by his own hand, in Manhattan, where he had lived for four years...
...last week Secretary of War Patrick Jay Hurley lunched with President Hoover at the White House, hurried out to Boiling Field, climbed into a big Army plane, flew off on an important mission. On one of the longest river junkets ever undertaken by a Secretary of War, he was going to inspect the Mississippi from (navigable) source to delta, from Minneapolis to the Gulf. President Hoover wanted him to find out how the $325,000,000 flood control program was progressing, how navigational improvements along the stream were getting on, what could be done to speed up the work...