Word: patterson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...SCHUYLER PATTERSON...
Promptly the War Department challenged his figures: GAO, said Under Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson, "had actually disallowed less than 10? per $1,000" on Army contracts (or $100,000 per billion dollars). He said that 90% of Lindsay Warren's 270 items had either been detected and disallowed by the Army itself or subsequently approved by GAO. The false teeth, said Mr. Patterson, were due to a Navy-not Army-order that a contractor's technicians take an extra pair along to Russia (together with extra glasses) because such medical minutiae are unobtainable there. "While...
...said they thought it would be an excellent thing. Only one said it would not do. Said a sixth: "It would be better than a swap of Roosevelt for Stalin." None got around to asking how it could be done. Neither had Jimmy's boss, Yaleman Joseph Medill Patterson, editor of the Daily News, who mortally hates and fears the President...
...article in the new, fortnightly War and the Working Class, Soviet trade-union publication, named U.S. Publishers William R. Hearst, Joseph M. Patterson, Robert R. McCormick and Scripps-Howard's Roy W. Howard as "representing reactionary, defeatist, isolationist circles whose anti-Soviet campaign is designed to throw suspicion on Soviet foreign policy." Said War and the Working Class: "They circularize false, fabricated conflicts between the Soviet Union and its allies-a line which fully corresponds to the interests of Hitler's agents who are speculating on disruption...
These strong words left the "chosen instrument" policy to a lonely, powerful pair: Juan Terry Trippe's Pan American Airways and William A. Patterson's United Air Lines (TIME, Aug. 23). Nothing daunted, Bill Patterson last week spoke his own strong words in reply to the Am Ex defection. In an open letter to CAB, Patterson bluntly recommended legislation to bar any individual U.S. line from transocean flying except as part of a single U.S. flag operation...