Word: patterson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wilful and malicious libel." Notice to that effect was served last week upon the Press by Senator Gerald Prentice Nye of North Dakota, the committee's chairman, and three of his colleagues (New York's Wagner, Washington's Dill, Vermont's Dale. Missouri's Patterson did not sign the edict...
...deep-rooted Washington belief is that Mrs. Nicholas ("Princess Alice") Longworth, wife of the Speaker of the House, exercises a potent backstage influence on U. S. politics. When Mrs. Eleanor Medill Patterson (onetime Countess Gizycka) became editrix of William Randolph Hearst's Washington Herald last summer, she attracted notice with a signed front-page declaration to the effect that the only political assistance Mrs. Longworth could render Senate Nominee Ruth Hanna McCormick in Illinois was posing for photographs. It appeared that the Countess was out to explode the "Princess" legend, for business or other reasons. Last week Editor Patterson...
Under the caption "Will She? Can She?" Mrs. Patterson editorialized with Hearstian italics as follows...
...government regulation under which I work refers to a relative by marriage. In your opinion would my wife's sister's husband be a relative by marriage? In July 7 issue, p. 49, in speaking of R. T. Crane's relationship to J. M. Patterson it is implied that you do not consider the two men relatives...
Unprecedented, this ruling whipped up a squall of protest. The Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce called in William Patterson MacCracken Jr., chairman of its legal committee, demanded a hearing before the board. There was talk of a test case in court. Manufacturers?particularly of seaplanes and amphibians?were incredulous. Their whole appeal to the private flyer, upon whom they depend for much of their business, is based on the inducement of flying between city and vacation camp where lakes furnish easy, safe landing places without cost. Such lakes abound in New Jersey...