Word: patterson
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Publisher Joseph Medill Patterson (New York Daily News), longtime aviation enthusiast, read "Return to Earth," thought it showed writing ability, decided it was a shame that such a fine young man must risk his life to feed his family. He wired Author Collins, offered him a $100-per-week job as a newspaper columnist, writing about aviation...
Besides their journalism schools, the two old Joes left behind two able young Joes. In St. Louis, Joseph Pulitzer Jr. runs the Post-Dispatch. In Manhattan, Grandson Joseph Medill Patterson has made a phenomenal success of the tabloid Daily News. Like many another practical newsman of this generation, "Joe" Patterson has little faith in schools of journalism. Last week, after reading the Pulitzer School's announcement, he filled the whole editorial column of his News with a piece entitled "On How Not to Teach Journalism." With it he printed a picture of Columbia's aging President Nicholas Murray...
Bill MacCracken was William Patterson MacCracken Jr., 48, onetime (1926-29) Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics, secretary of the American Bar Association, aviation lawyer-lobbyist. Last year the Senate charged him with permitting destruction of papers which it had subpoenaed for its airmail investigation, cited him for contempt. Itching for a fight with his old enemy the Senate, famed Lawyer Frank J. Hogan (see p. 16) volunteered to defend Mr. MacCracken without compensation, had him play hide & seek with Sergeant Jurney (TIME, Feb. 12, 1934 et seq.). After the Senate had tried and sentenced his client to ten days...
Father Faithfull began with criminal actions alleging libel against himself and against the memory of his dead daughter, tried to have Publisher Joseph Medill Patterson of the New York Daily News arrested, but a magistrate refused to issue a warrant. Last month the first of these went to trial against the News. Father Faithfull asked $350,000 damages because, he claimed: 1) the News had intimated that he murdered his daughter; 2) the News had said he concealed evidence in the case, hampering the authorities; 3) the News had said he and his wife lived on his late daughter...
...revolution was launched by one Rufus Lenois Patterson, seventh son of an impoverished North Carolina lawyer-planter. About 1919, after 20 years of grief, he perfected a cigar machine which cut, rolled and wrapped the leaves, made the cheap cigar profitable to produce. In 1921 about 30% of the 6,726,000,000 cigars consumed sold at 5? or less. In 1933, the proportion had jumped to 85%. This stupendous gain was made in spite of the fact that cigarets and Depression had cut total cigar consumption to new lows. Nickel cigars had simply profited at the expense of higher...