Word: patterson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson last week charged more than 10,000 striking members of the Mechanics Educational Society of America (independent) with "conduct equivalent to treason." The strike was a jurisdictional dispute between M.E.S.A. and the C.I.O.'s United Auto Workers; it had spread from a single small factory to 48 other war plants by order of M.E.S.A.'s energetic Matthew Smith...
...Premier William John Patterson, Liberal, who did not know his Lenin, attacked the C.C.F. for confusing "socialism and cooperation by making them appear synonymous." Then he and his fellow Liberals voted with the C.C.F. for the new bill. This was smart politics, for nowhere in Canada are cooperatives so popular and successful as in Saskatchewan, where 1,000 societies with 250,000 members own and operate their own businesses. Among the most unusual: Regina's Funeral Cooperative Association Ltd., organized July 1, 1943 to combat the high cost of dying...
...Some famed "Grotties": Diplomats Sumner Welles, '10, and Joseph C. Grew, '98; New York Daily News Publisher Captain Joseph M. Patterson, '96; Artist George Biddle, '04; Attorney General Francis Biddle...
...internationalist-minded audience heartily booed the isolationist names including the McCormick, Patterson, Gannett and Hearst press...
Newspapermen, long familiar with the News'?, aggressive method of fighting libel threats, were inclined to agree with Bob Hannegan. But few thought that hard-headed Joe Patterson either wanted to spare his readers below-the-belt copy, or minded too much the family slight in the cartoon on Cousin "Bertie." Best guess was that astute Captain Patterson wanted no side music to distract attention from the blaring, anti-New Deal tune played daily by his accomplished trio of Editorial Writer Reuben Maury, Cartoonist C. D. Batchelor and Columnist John O'Donnell...