Word: patterson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cissie Patterson's chain gang departed, but she continued her fight with the President over the number of trees involved. At his press conference he said she was flimflamming the public to get circulation. Her last word was a cartoon showing a disreputable figure labeled "Flimflam Politics" saying, "All right, so we LIED to you-so what? And we're cutting down your damn CHERRY TREES...
Slim, grey-mustached Ellwood Patterson ("Dad") Cubberley, dean emeritus of Stanford University's School of Education, is dean of historians of U. S. education. He wrote or edited the famed 100 Riverside Textbooks in Education and besides wrote 18 others. His best seller, Public School Administration, sold some 100,000 copies. Professors who write widely-used texts make a lucrative business of writing textbooks, but last year 70-year-old Ellwood Cubberley did an unprecedented thing with his textbook profits. He gave Stanford's School of Education a new $535,000 building...
...unlettered New England clockmaker, Phineas Parkhurst Quimby of Belfast, Me. He had discovered that he could mesmerize people, and in collaboration with a clairvoyant youth named Lucius Burkmar he cured all manner of ills. To him in 1862 went a formidable, twice-married invalid, Mary Morse Baker Glover Patterson, who after her third marriage was to become known as Mary Baker Eddy, founder of the Christian Science church...
Cured by Quimby, Mrs. Patterson absorbed his ideas, wrote of them in letters and public prints, composed a poem upon his death in 1866. According to all her biographers except the official one (Sibyl Wilbur), she attempted in later years to laugh off a very great debt to Quimby. His followers, however, have never minded. Whereas Christian Science grew into a well-organized church, Quimbyism remained an individualistic movement which did not even get a permanent name until the 1890s. Then it became known as New Thought...
...book describes the birth of America's first tabloid, Joseph Medill Patterson's "Illustrated Daily News," which appeared on June 26, 1919, modeled on the already successful English tabloids. It kept on appearing and today it is the largest selling paper in the nation, yet for three years Mr. Hearst never saw in it a potential rival. When he did it was too late. Mr. Bessie then launches into a dry examination of the contents of the "Daily News" down thought the years, showing the tabloid formula and the current (if invisible) trend towards straight news, and concludes with circulation...