Word: patterson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington dope story under this eight-column screamer amiably assured readers that pleasure drivers would soon get tires-"without hampering the military effort in any way." Readers didn't even blink: it was only Cissy Patterson's Washington Times-Herald again. When Captain Joe Patterson's New York Daily News printed the same story, under the headline RUBBER SHORTAGE A MYTH, INDUSTRY WILL TELL NATION, the New York Post sent a Washington correspondent to Albert L. Viles, president of the Rubber Manufacturers Association, who denied the headline's story...
...printed them all, along with the gibes of the Hearst and Patterson-McCormick press, the full texts of radio commentators. For several days headlines about Ingersoll and Draft Board 44 all but drove the war off PM's front page. The draft board, reconsidering its decision, reaffirmed it, by a 2-to-1 vote...
...Editor Ingersoll, particularly after his attempt to try his case in his own paper. Yet all of them knew that, for better or for worse, Editor Ingersoll had given PM its character and direction-just as truly as Bertie McCormick has to the isolationist Chicago Tribune or Joe Patterson to the New York Daily News-and that to draft him was a blow at a wing of the press which also has a right to freedom and continued existence...
...later he found a $100-a-week sponsor, Thompson's Dairy, but was expected to kick back 40% of his check to the paper. Godwin asked the dairy to make out two checks, one for $60 and one for $40. "Then I thought it was unfair for Cissie [Patterson] to take my money so I put the $60 check in my pocket and let the paper take its 40% out of the $40 check...
...after the war 14% of the excess profits collected from it now. The committee also let stand the 94% excess-profits levy denounced as "a danger to the full success of the war production program" (because it gives industry no incentive for greater production) by Donald Nelson, Under Secretaries Patterson and Forrestal, and Admiral Land...