Word: patterson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Besides going through the motions of corporate reorganization, each major bidder reshuffled its personnel and de-titled those officials who participated in the airmail "spoils conference" of 1930. United's President Philip G. Johnson stepped down and out and Vice President W. A. Patterson stepped up and in. New president of Eastern Air, T. W. A. and General Air Lines was North American Aviation's President Ernest Robert Breech. Dropped from the lists were famed Pioneers Thomas B. Doe (E. A. T.), Richard W. Robbins (T. W. A.) and Harris M. Hanshue (Western...
...excerpt from an essay entitled "Confessions of a Drone," written in 1906. It is included in Pamphlet No. 45 in the Pocket Library of Socialism. It is to be found on most public library shelves, hard by the writings of Karl Marx. The author was Joseph Medill Patterson, grandson of the late great Joseph Medill, founder of the Chicago Tribune. Joseph Patterson was then 27 years old, five years out of Yale, four years married, doing nothing...
Last week Capt. Joseph Medill Patterson, 55, returned to Manhattan from a well-earned vacation in Europe. He could not possibly call himself a drone. His income was many times more than $10,000 a year, but he got it by no hocuspocus. He no longer wrote Socialist tracts, but he was doing more in behalf of the working people than his tracts ever accomplished. All of which was due to the fact that Joseph Patterson was editor & publisher of the newspaper with the largest circulation in the land, the tabloid New York Daily News, which last year earned...
...unraveling of this mystery in a mystery escape unnoted by your alert London correspondent. And may I suggest that he be severely reprimanded for almost omitting, let alone giving only six and one-half lines to what might turn out to be the greatest mystery since "somebody hit Billy Patterson!" Here's "egg" in your eye for bigger and better mysteries! WILLIAM G. TARRANT JR. Richmond, Va. About one-hole eggs there is no mystery. All expert oölogists blow their eggs with a fine silver tube inserted through one hole drilled in the shell. Pressure...
Married. Countess Felicia Gizycka, 28, daughter of Eleanor Medill Patterson, editor of the Washington, D. C. Herald; and Dudley de Lavinge, 28, insurance man; in London. Countess Felicia's first husband was Drew Pearson, Washington correspondent...