Word: patterson
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That Franklin Roosevelt or any other President would wish or have to use such power to the full appeared unlikely. Its mere existence serves the purpose: to scare a recalcitrant few. Assistant Secretary of War Robert Porter Patterson assured industry that the power would be applied to only "one case in a thousand." But he left no doubt that the Roosevelt Administration was prepared to crack down on the thousandth...
Died. John Patterson Green, 95, Negro lawyer born in slavery, lifelong friend of John D. Rockefeller Sr., first Negro ever elected to a judicial office (justice of the peace) in a northern State; of injuries sustained in a Labor Day motor accident; in Cleveland. In 1887 Lawyer Green promoted the idea of a legal holiday for labor. Said he last week to his wife: "I hope I can live to be 97, like my good friend, John...
When rugged Joseph Medill moved to Chicago in 1855 and bought the Chicago Tribune, he founded a news dynasty which today controls three of the most potent papers in the U. S. One of his grandsons, Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick, now runs the Tribune. Another grandson, Captain Joseph Medill Patterson, owns the pioneer tabloid New York Daily News. Granddaughter Eleanor Medill ("Cissie") Patterson publishes the Washington Times-Herald. Their aggregate circulation is close...
This week another of Joseph Medill's dynasty, brown-eyed, athletic, 30-year-old Alicia Patterson, the Captain's daughter, became a publisher. Wife (since July 1939) of onetime U. S. Ambassador to Cuba Harry Frank Guggenheim, Alicia has like him been a flying enthusiast, been married thrice. (Husband I was the late James Simpson Jr., son of Marshall Field & Co.'s onetime chairman; Husband II was Broker Joseph W. Brooks.) Her newly founded paper: an evening tabloid, Newsday, a "country newspaper" for rich, suburban Nassau County...
...most accounts, Robert Patterson's appointment was a good choice. But the new Assistant Secretary will have to hump himself to do credit to Franklin Roosevelt for making a change at such a time. Said Columnist Hugh Johnson: "It [the Assistant-Secretaryship] is no task for an amateur. . . . It would take a new man a year even to get the feel of it. We have no years to spare-not even days...