Word: patterson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan, Commissioner of Correction Richard C. Patterson Jr. while inspecting a jail, was asked by the keeper what charge had brought him in. "Prowling," answered Commissioner Patterson. ''Get in there," said the keeper, locked Commissioner Patterson in a cell where he stayed for half an hour...
...next few hours were chaos for managing editors. Hearst executives were frantic; offered fat sums (reputedly $5.000) for a print. They wired "The Chief" in California, even besought Grandfather Dwight Morrow to intercede for them. More furious, if possible, was Capt. Joseph Medill Patterson, publisher of the Daily News. Heatedly but futilely he demanded that A. P. General Manager Kent Cooper obey the A. P. rules, supply the News with a picture...
Friends of Publisher Patterson of the News know him for a good sportsman, a fair fighter. They wondered what his mental processes were when, three days after the baby-picture episode, the Daily News performed what looked like as spiteful a piece of journalism as has lately been performed...
Quietly last winter was formed a new agency for scholarship called the Facsimile Text Society. Last week it received its first large publicity impetus when the President of the U. S. penned a letter of congratulation and thanks for presentation copies to its founder-executive officer Frank A. Patterson, Professor of English at Columbia University...
...idea for facsimile texts was born when Prof. Patterson and some colleagues were met with rebuffs and difficulties while working on a complete edition of Milton.* Last December Prof. Patterson told the Modern Language Association how helpful he had found the photostatic process for inspection and study of rare items. The idea was developed, the Facsimile Text Society formally organized. Members of other organizations joined as sponsors: the American Historical Society, History of Science Society, American Economic Association, Modern Humanities Research Association. The Carnegie Corporation contributed $3,500, but advised that "the idea is too good not to be self...