Word: patterson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington Times-Heraid's vitriolic, red-haired Publisher Cissie Patterson, 61, who publishes the biggest but not the best paper in the capital, has had insanity on her mind recently. Last week she spread her thoughts across eight columns, under the heading CRAZY-CRAZY LIKE FOXES. They added up to some of the most vicious personal slander since the days when all journalism was yellow...
...minute later, Mrs. Patterson was talking about Winchell, Pearson "and other Quislings [who] . . .manage to get paid big money for their treachery." Their crime, as Cissie saw it: "This filthy work of plotting, planning, sneaking, lying, spying, cheating, stealing, smearing, in the mere HOPE of one day overthrowing our American form of government." Cissie's final medical diagnosis: the "liberals" were "crazy all right, but . . . crazy like foxes" and sometimes there was "a fine method in their madness...
Rediscovered by Secretary Robert Patterson, who had been Stimson's Under Secretary, Royall was marked by Washington gossips for the top War Department job when solemn Bob Patterson retires. The man from North Carolina, who was once one of the state's best trial lawyers, was not excited. His ambition: "I'd kind of like to go back to my home town...
When she minced into Pearl Harbor, just in time to see war break over Hawaii, the destroyer Patterson was only four years old and one of the best. A survivor of Dec. 7's disaster, she became one of the thin line of U.S. warships left to stop the Jap fleet in the Pacific. Lean as an alley cat, "Pat" stalked off to westward...
...room had been fitted out with blackboard and chalk. Mrs. Truman still wanted to learn the language of Good Neighborliness. Among other scholars who will gather at the White House at 11 every Monday morning: Mrs. Dwight Eisenhower, Miss Florence King (daughter of Fleet Admiral Ernest), Mrs. Robert Patterson, Mrs. James F. Byrnes...