Word: patterson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Landon for President. Same day the Literary Digest's national Presidential straw vote revealed that in New York State 99,228 voters, telephone-subscribers and club members were for Landon, 34,120 for Roosevelt. When he saw this discrepancy, the News's energetic Publisher Joseph Medill Patterson summoned an editor, had him get the Digest's Publisher Wilfred J. Funk on the telephone, offer to bet him $10,000 against $5,000 that the News's straw vote was more accurate for New York State than the Digest's poll...
...that sounds like easy money!" said Mr. Funk. "Let me talk it over with some of the boys in the office." After talking it over, Mr. Funk was less enthusiastic. The Digest figures Captain Patterson had challenged did not include New York City, which was yet to be accounted for in the magazine's poll...
...Panic, the chain sells minimum victuals at minimum prices. Last week Macfadden restaurant figures showed a deficit of only $5,610.40 for the first half of 1936. Also acquired in 1931 was Liberty, now the big façade of the Macfadden publishing structure. Publishers Joseph Medill Patterson and Robert Rutherford McCormick could not make it pay. Under the direction of kinetic Editor Charles Fulton Oursler,* who runs the magazine mostly by teletype from West Falmouth, Mass., Liberty (circulation: 2,505,302) is now believed to be in the black...
Next morning Ruby Hart ("Miss Nebraska") announced that she was homesick, sped to Newark airport, flew back to Omaha. That left only 47 beauties to appear that evening in the ballroom of the Steel Pier before a committee composed of Illustrators James Montgomery Flagg and Russell Patterson, Vincent Trotter of Paramount Pictures' Art Department, George B. Petty of Esquire, Photographer Hal Phyfe. Black-haired, blue-eyed Rose Veronica Coyle, 22, of Yeadon, Pa. became "Miss America of 1936," won a trip by air to Hollywood and a screen test.* Convulsively clutching her loving-cup, Rose Veronica Coyle beamed, squealed...
...Merry by receiving him in comfortable, heelless slippers, created an international sensation when he dispensed with precedents at State functions. The relationship of Mrs. Merry to Irish Poet Tom Moore, the amours of Captain Zebulon Pike, discoverer of Pike's Peak, the marriage of Jerome Bonaparte to Betsy Patterson of Baltimore, the domestic difficulties of the French Minister, who frequently beat his wife-such topics dominated the gossip of a provincial capital that was growing too worldly for its own good...