Word: patterson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Addressed to a gumchewing audience which has power at the polls if not in the parlor, the News's editorials are simple, colloquial, concrete, hard-hitting. Publisher Patterson writes some himself, furnishes ideas for others to smart Reuben Maury. Sample excerpts...
House's History, The Red writer's ignorance of Publisher Patterson, of his history and the history of his House, was common, excusable. While "Bertie" McCormick has loudly functioned outside his newspaper and made himself one of the most widely discussed publishers in the land, "Joe" Patterson has let the News be his voice, kept his person in the background...
...Tribune's late great Publisher Joseph Medill had no sons, two daughters. Daughter Katharine married Diplomat Robert S. McCormick, bore Medill, who became a U. S. Senator, and Robert R. McCormick. Daughter Elinor married Editor Robert W. Patterson, bore Joseph and Eleanor Patterson. As rich men's sons, Cousins "Bertie" and "Joe" both went to Groton and Yale. Afterward, both dabbled in Chicago politics but with notably different approaches. Cousin Bertie remained true to his class, performed efficient civic service as an orthodox Republican. Cousin Joe turned social-conscious and, along with several novels and plays, wrote Confessions...
Grandfather Medill left control of the Tribune in a Medill trust, whose beneficiaries are Publisher McCormick and his brother Medill's relict, Ruth Hanna McCormick Simms; Publisher Patterson and his sister Eleanor, the famed "Cissy" Patterson of Hearst's Washington Herald. The two men are the trustee-managers. They bossed the Tribune jointly until 1925 when Partner Patterson moved East to run the New York News, which they had founded six years before. Having experienced a considerable clash of temperaments in their Chicago years, the partner-cousins soon formed a sensible working agreement: Publisher McCormick...
Publisher Patterson is grey, wrinkled, friendly, spends much time circulating through his modernistic News building on East 42nd Street, sallying out around the town to find out what the masses are thinking. Publisher McCormick is aloof and domineering, rules his paper from a lofty office in the Gothic Tribune Tower, possesses such an aversion to human contact that he has himself driven to work from his Wheaton estate in a coupe, in order to avoid having to offer a neighbor a lift. Yearly he entertains his employes in the Tribune Tower lobby. Remarked Cousin Joe Patterson at one of these...