Word: patterson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Franklin Roosevelt had had his licks at berating the Hearst-Patterson-McCormick newspapers (TIME, Oct. 11). Now came a shot from a second front...
...best newspapermen," read the President, "resent this sea of hint and rumor. . . . The worst and most irresponsible deliberately exploit it-as the Patterson and McCormick newspapers are constantly doing...
First he read a clipping from Eleanor Patterson's Washington Times-Herald. It was a story by dapper, opinionated William K. Hutchinson, chief of the Hearst-owned I.N.S. Washington bureau. His story's gist: 1) that "a group of influential White House advisers" was conspiring to kick General Marshall upstairs "to a glorified but powerless world command over Anglo-American forces"; 2) that the motive "is to use the Army's vast production program . . . as a political weapon in the 1944 Presidential campaign." As the President read he bore down jeeringly on the more purple key phrases...
They accused the Washington Times-Herald and its sister papers (Joseph Patterson's anti-New Deal, anti-British New York Daily News and Robert McCormick's ditto Chicago Tribune) of being "sleepless" in their efforts "to spread disunion among the Allies." As he read on, the President, obviously enjoying his ready-made answer, paused once to interpolate that the Herald Tribune is (accented) a respectable newspaper and to smile benignly at the HT's Washington correspondent, comfortable, spectacled Bert Andrews...
Argumentum. Into the fray next day jumped the News, to bat for itself, its sister papers and the Hearst Press, to bat at the Herald Tribune. Said the News in the best Joe Patterson manner: "The President's purpose, obviously, was double-barreled: 1) to intimidate all newspapers and magazines in the United States into subservience to his will; 2) to further his ambition for a fourth term...