Word: mattson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tacoma, Wash, (population 106,817) has had more than its share of major kidnappings (George Weyerhaeuser in 1935, Charles Mattson in 1936), does not think highly of the way newspapers and radio cover this kind of news. After the Mattson boy was murdered the Tacoma Chamber of Commerce publicly censured reporters and editors for "gross mistakes that many people believe may have prevented the return of this child unharmed" (TIME, Feb. 8, 1937). Last week crime news was worrying Tacomans again, but this time they were afraid they weren't getting enough...
...funds. Already on view were such old hands as Edward Hopper, Bernard Karfiol, Max Weber, Louis Eilshemius, Augustus Vincent Tack. For the first time appeared equally well-known George Biddle, William Glackens, vigorous, self-taught Joe Jones of Missouri, Henry Botkin, Robert Brackman, Alexander James, Sidney Laufman, Henry E. Mattson, Paul Sample, Louis Bouche. Showgoers lifted most surprised eyebrows when they beheld Doris Lee's Catastrophe, which showed a Zeppelin in flames over Manhattan, its passengers drifting earthward in parachutes (see cut). Working in arty Woodstock, N. Y., Mrs. Lee finished her fantasy long before the Hindenburg disaster. Painting...
Tacoma Lumberman John Philip Weyerhaeuser, whose 10-year-old son George was safely ransomed from kidnappers for $200,000 in May, 1935, established at Seattle's Children's Orthopedic Hospital an endowment in memory of 10-year-old Charles Mattson of Tacoma, murdered by a kidnapper two months ago (TIME, Jan. 11). George and Charles used to play together...
...Chamber of Commerce sat down to compose as grave a memorandum of censure as Press and Radio ever received from a responsible U. S. body. Grievance of the Tacoma businessmen was the handling by newsgatherers for ink & air of the kidnap-murder of 10-year-old Charles Mattson (TIME, Jan. 18). Sternly the Chamber of Commerce members agreed that newsmen had made "gross mistakes that many people believe may have prevented the return of this child, unharmed," listed what they thought were some of the worst errors...
...shadowing of the home-day and night-by a corps of newspaper men, making contact difficult. . . . The incessant trailing of Dr. Mattson [father] on his visits around the city, by these same newspaper men. . . . Unwarranted and untruthful emphasis on the words "mansion" and "rich." . . . Daily radio broadcasts by individuals who drew from their imaginations. . . . The publication by some newspapers of the alleged ransom note secured improperly, in all probability through bribery...