Word: patterson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan, Under Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson said bluntly: "Many here have settled into a frame of mind far different from that we were in on Dec. 7, 1941. Then we had unity. . . . Our need to recapture that unity today stands above all other needs. . . ." He declared that the prime source of trouble was a "smugly optimistic assumption of assured victory" on the part of civilians...
Savo Island, Aug. 8, had left the newly landed Marines on Guadalcanal in a precarious position. "Generally speaking, we were surprised because we lacked experience," so the Japs sank four cruisers, the Vincennes, Astoria, Quincy and Canberra (Australian), damaged the cruiser Chicago and the destroyers Ralph Talbot and Patterson...
Engaged. James Joseph Patterson, 21, West Point cadet, only son of New York Daily News Publisher Joseph Medill Patterson; and Dorothy Marie Clarke, 21, of Ossining, N.Y., his onetime grade-school flame; in Ossining...
...past master of the seven lively journalistic arts, Captain Joseph Patterson, publisher of the New York Daily News, last week gave a beautiful performance of buck-passing, ducking, bobbing and weaving. The cartoonist's pen was held by Clarence Daniel Batchelor, but the hand that guides the pen is Publisher Patterson's. On the day Batchelor drew the cartoon the Daily News: 1) covered the world's battlefronts in 90¾ column inches of type; 2) devoted 184¼ in. to six crime and sex stories. To the Daily News (circ. 2,000,000), Russia was worth...
...cartoon's 22 sq. in., Publisher Patterson satisfactorily absolved himself and his fellows from the charge of pandering, and put their millions of readers in the delightfully ticklish spot of appearing to demand what a reluctant press was forced to give them...