Word: patterson
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Died. Joseph Medill Patterson, 67, publisher of New York's whopping tabloid Daily News, cousin of Colonel "Bertie" McCormick (Chicago Tribune) and brother of "Cissie" Patterson (Washington Times-Herald); of a liver ailment; in Manhattan (see PRESS...
...Called War & Navy Secretaries Robert Patterson and James Forrestal to the White House, bluntly told them to iron out their merger differences...
...discord cropped up. Most of the Democratic regulars were backing ex-Congressman Will Rogers Jr. for Senator. The rugged radicals of the Hollywood Independent Committee for the Arts, Sciences and Professions, of the C.I.O.-P.A.C. and left-of-center A.F.L. unions were spending and electioneering hard for Congressman Ellis Patterson, who has often shown an agile adherence to the Communist line...
Rogers, privately endorsed by Kenny and publicly supported by "liberal" Author Carey McWilliams, suddenly saw Patterson billboards everywhere he turned. Democratic regulars sniffed a putsch, peeled off their kid gloves...
...Rogers campaigner went on the air to rattle a few skeletons in the Patterson closet: 1) the left-wing supported candidate was a turncoat Republican; 2) he had been a vociferous isolationist; 3) in 1940 he had called F.D.R. a warmonger...