Word: patten
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Aged Hackwriter Gilbert Patten, who wrote the once-famed "Frank Merriwell" books, reminisced: "The stories were written in a Victorian age. ... If I did them today, I'd make the characters more natural. Frank used to say, 'You're a great guy.' Now I'd make him say, 'You're a damned fine...
...will be used for a building. Walter Dill Scott was so excited about the gift that he promptly decided to clear a site on the Evanston campus, facing the lake, for his new institute. To make way, the $1,000,000 stone and steel Patten gymnasium, 302 by 132 feet and three stories high, will be cut into three pieces, moved on skids to a site four blocks away...
...Protestant churches in Chattanooga, Tenn., First Baptist is the largest, First Presbyterian the richest, St. Paul's Episcopal the most swank. Last week at St. Paul's the Episcopal diocese of Tennessee was holding its annual convention, and rich Zeboim Charles Patten, chairman of the church's endowment corporation, was telling assembled laymen and clergy about investments. Up rose Rev. Alfred Loaring-Clark, diocesan chairman of religious education...
...Patten." asked he, "may I ask whether any of the endowment investments have been placed in securities of corporations violating the principles of Christianity...
Shuffling his papers, Churchman Patten replied that no definite policy had been adopted, that such a question might well be broached "when conditions become more settled...