Word: patterson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Deferment for husbands whose wives might break down when their husbands are inducted was suggested by the University of Michigan's Dr. Ralph M. Patterson. "Treatment of the wife . . . has proved extremely difficult...
...reason the tabloid News has the biggest U.S. circulation (2,004,000 daily and 3,700,000 on Sunday), according to Publisher Joseph Medill Patterson's editorial, is that people approve of its "America First" line. Joe Patterson drew the same conclusion about his cousin Bertie McCormick's mighty Chicago Tribune and his sister Eleanor ("Cissie") Patterson's Washington Times-Herald. He noted that they were tops in circulation in their cities, too. Said the News...
...These three [Patterson-McCormick-Patterson] newspapers' editorial policies on domestic affairs have differed from time to time [the News was once pro-New Deal]. Their policies on foreign affairs have not differed importantly. Those policies have been and are slanted toward what we believe to be the best interests of the American people-America first, to use a phrase which various global thinkers have done their best to bring into disrepute...
Crisis Talk. All three, WPBoss Donald Nelson, Navy Secretary James Forrestal, Under Secretary of War Robert Patterson, averred that they were anxious about the war labor situation. Donald Nelson used such phrases as "desperately acute," "a great danger," "very grave," and "serious" to describe the manpower needs in the casting and foundry industries, lumber, pulpwood and textiles...
When the Army launched its Canol pipeline-&-refinery project, the price for oil was fixed at $1.25 a barrel (plus production costs). The new price: 20? (plus production costs). Said Under Secretary of War Robert Patterson: "The new agreement is fundamentally a matter of insurance that in the future the defense of the continent will not be endangered as it was early in 1942 by lack of locally produced...