Word: patterson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...HENRY C. PATTERSON Philadelphia...
...freshman group who have had the valuable experience of having their interest in choral music aroused, and who do not make the Harvard Glee Club next week, will not strictly "have no chance to continue singing." There exist the Bach Society Chorus, the Music Club Chorus, Alfred Nash Patterson's Chorus Pro Musica in Boston, church choirs throughout the Cambridge and Boston areas. The operetta choruses have in the past actually had a majority of non-Glee Club singers, and, as in the case of the Winthrop House Opera last spring, additional Glee Club members have been solicited only after...
...bosses bought votes at $10 a head and put in a puppet government. Members of cleanup committees were subjected to a campaign of nuisance arrests and tire slashings. Two were badly beaten up, on a downtown street and in broad daylight, by hired bullies. In June 1954 Lawyer Albert Patterson, who had won nomination as Attorney General of Alabama on a cleanup ticket, was shot to death while sitting in his automobile just outside his office in the center of town...
...Governor Gordon Persons was forced by public opinion to declare martial law. The National Guard took over. Phenix City was as dead as any 100-year-old harlot ought to be. During the next six months, a grand jury voted 741 indictments, including three for the murder of Lawyer Patterson. The accused: Chief Deputy Sheriff Albert Fuller, convicted as the triggerman, was sentenced to life in prison; County Solicitor Arch Ferrell was acquitted of complicity; Alabama's Attorney General Silas Garrett, still in office at the time of the murder, has not yet been brought to trial...
...emphasize in Washington the problem of shifting residential populations. Because no young families are moving into the area, Toledo's Hamilton School will open next fall with a third of its classrooms empty. But the opposite is the harsh rule. Toledo's new schools in Grove Patterson and Old Orchard, for example, will be filled to overflowing. The problem for Toledo to decide: Should it try, over the protests of remaining residents, to close down its underpopulated schools, or should it keep them open to avoid having to transport its students many miles each day to other schools...