Word: patterson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Everyone was sure that the minority included the representatives of the Patterson-McCormick papers (Chicago Tribune, New York Daily News, Washington Times-Herald). That very day, Eleanor ("Cissie") Patterson's Times-Herald had printed a grisly spread: a page of photographs of American fighting dead, accompanied by a 1940 quotation from Franklin Roosevelt: "... I shall say it again and again and again: your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars...
Next day, George DeWitt was no longer the Times-Herald's managing editor. Washington heard that he had told Cissie Patterson, "either that layout goes, or I go." The layout stayed...
United's President William A. ("Pat") Patterson was mad because CAB had turned down United's request to fly a cut-off route between Los Angeles and Denver on United's New York to San Francisco main line. Instead, CAB had given the permit to smaller Western Air Lines. As an estimated 50,000 transcontinental passengers a year will fly over the route, many of them on sleeper planes, this might mean that they would be routed out of bed in the middle of the night to change planes. To avert this, CAB suggested that Western...
Under Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson (August 1944): "Victory over the Germans...
Under Secretary Patterson wired Smith: "Your strikes . . . represent no honest grievance. . . . You are striking our fighting men from the rear. The War Department insists these strikes be stopped at once...