Word: patterson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, while Colonel McCormick's Senator (C. Wayland Brooks) orated in defense of the Tribune, Captain Patterson got a blasting from a freshman Representative from Pennsylvania...
...Patterson is a different sort of journalistic bird from, Bertie McCormick. Unlike the Tribune, the tabloid News plays the news straight-except for queer capers in some "feature" stories. Having long ago graduated from reliance on a cheesecake-and-scandal diet, it now commands respect from its contemporaries for its enterprise and alertness. Equally respected is Captain Patterson, who distinguished himself in combat in World War I, has espoused many a liberal cause. But his pre-Pearl Harbor isolationism and editorial changes of pace on the conduct of the war have prompted many to tar him with the same brush...
...working with the Axis warlords to . . . hamper our country's war effort." Taking his pretty wife (a onetime secretary of Mrs. Gifford Pinchot) to Washington as his secretary, Elmer Holland started right in on a seven-days-a week study of Captain Joe's News and Cissie Patterson's Washington Times-Herald. Last fortnight, in his maiden speech, he let fly: Captain Joe and Cissie, he charged, were "America's No. 1 and No. 2 exponents of the Nazi propaganda line . . . doing their best to bring about a Fascist victory, hoping that in that victory they...
...Patterson's editorials are always bluntly to the point. But the News's 2,000,000 readers were startled by a Patterson editorial blunter than usual: "Congressman Holland: You are a liar. Make what you like of that...
This time Captain Patterson did not reply. But the captain has a daughter-brown-haired Alicia, 34, as smart as she is pretty. Long before Pearl Harbor, in her own Long Island tabloid Newsday, she had disagreed with her father's pre-war isolationism (TIME, Oct. 6). Last week she came to his defense in a signed column (reprinted in Aunt Cissie's Times-Herald...