Word: pattersoned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Under Secretary of War Robert Patterson: in more than two years of fighting, U.S. troops have captured 170,000 Italian prisoners and 110,000 Germans, but only 377 Japs. (In Washington, Navy Secretary Knox added: "It is unwholesome to assume that the Japanese fleet is afraid to come out. It just does not suit them to come out right now. They have fanatical courage...
...There was Alf Landon, John Hamilton, Joseph Pew, Senator Nye and the Rev. Gerald L. K. Smith; and, of course, the metropolitan McCormick-Patterson newspaper axis. They were loud. They were angry. They indulged in much loose talk. . . . These political locusts had nothing to say. . . . [They are] discredited mouthpieces of reaction. . . . They simply agreed in their hatred of the outstanding Republican of our time-Wendell Willkie...
When chipper, billiards-playing Graham Creighton Patterson* stepped in to run the Farm Journal in 1935 (backed by the copious cash of arch-Republicans Joseph and Howard Pew), its circulation was clotted at 1,100.000, its size at 16 to 18 pages. Its bookkeeping was done in red. This month's 72-page Farm Journal and Farmer's Wife (wed in 1939) went to more than 2,700,000 subscribers, and Patterson chalked his cue for a long reverse shot. Success had frozen his cue ball fast against the paper shortage...
...McCormick-Patterson papers and the Hearst press had contributed towards the cause by stopping their private MacA.f.P. boom...
...airmen, the stinger in the N.A.M. policy was not so much free air as free competition. On that latter point, the 19 U.S. airlines long ago split hotly. Against the 17 which have vociferously championed lots of international competition, Juan Trippe's Pan American Airways and William A. Patterson's United Air Lines have stoutly held out for the "chosen instrument" of one big Government-backed airline. In the N.A.M. the free-competition flyers found their strongest ally to date...