Word: patterson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...handful of Senators and Congressmen became purple last week attacking and defending the McCormick-Patterson publishing family. At hubbub's end the man who had taken the hardest lumps was not widely hated Colonel Robert McCormick, of the Chicago Tribune, but the most engaging member of the family: Captain Joe Patterson of the New York Daily News...
Robert Porter Patterson, 51, a blunt, monkish onetime Federal Appeals Court judge, was doing K.P. duty in the Army reserve camp at Plattsburg the day he was appointed Assistant Secretary of War. In Washington he got an equally messy job: channeling the Army's swollen, muddied procurement program. He went to work in shirt sleeves, vest dangling, jaws chomping gum, his right arm working like a pump handle as he announced decisions. Soon he was promoted to Under Secretary. Judicial Bob Patterson's plodding, plugging methods have led him down many a blind alley. But they have also...
...branded an airmail profiteer, publicly disgraced, finally booted out of U.S. aviation by the witch-hunting First New Deal (TIME, April 30, 1934). Last week the same "P.G." Johnson was a top-flight U.S. production hero and Seattle's No. 1 citizen. Reason: Under Secretary of War Patterson had just handed Johnson and his booming Boeing Aircraft Co. the Army-Navy Production Award-newest U.S. prize for war-production excellence. Said Patterson: "This is your nation's tribute to the patriotism and production effort of your plant...
...factories will get credit aplenty. However proud he is, he keeps it to himself. This week, in spite of a rib broken in a fall from a horse, he shuttled between the Boeing offices and his swanky $250,000 home 15 miles outside Seattle. For the production record Robert Patterson praised so highly Johnson gave most of the credit to his workers. Said he: "They like to see things rolling...
...PATTERSON Biloxi, Miss...