Word: pattersons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lions, elephants, gnus, water buffalo, pythons, a rhinoceros and a golden-haired baboon-Frederick Beck Patterson, 35-year-old President of the National Cash Register Co., reached the U. S. last week tanned and a little thin, and told how he had shot them with camera and gun during five months big game hunting in Central and East Africa. When he ended he had a ton of animal skins and heads and 18,000 ft. of cinema films plus 400 still photographs (he was in the 15th Photographic Air Service Unit during the War). That was too much...
...BEGINNERS-Henry Kitchell Webster-Bobbs-Merrill ($2.50). Edward Patterson, 45, married, father of Edith and Edward, suddenly breaks with a frantic gesture out of the insurance business by means of which he has been supporting his family in good style. Eagerness for variety makes him go so far as to try to sell a mechanical device for automobiles. Poor returns on this venture make it necessary for his daughter to leave school, his son to work through college. Edward Patterson gives up. He makes amends to his wife who resents his incipient affair with Ruth Ingraham, returns to insurance selling...
Married. Miss Alicia Patterson, daughter of Joseph Medill Patterson, publisher of Liberty, the Chicago Tribune, the New York Daily News to James Simpson Jr., son of James Simpson, president of Marshall Field & Co.; in Chicago. Best man was Robert S. Pirie, son of John T. Pirie, vice-president of Carson, Pirie, Scott, rival department store...
...Appeal. For "sauntering and loitering" in front of the State House in Boston, 156 men and women were arraigned, found guilty. All but six were fined $5 and paid the fine. The others? Edna St. Vincent Millay, poet; Ellen Hayes, retired Wellesley College professor; John Howard Lawson, playwright; William Patterson, Negro lawyer; Ela Reeve Bloor and Catherine Huntington, liberal gentlewomen?were fined $10. Lawyer Arthur Garfield Hays of the American Civil Liberties Union counseled them to appeal their cases, as tests. His argument...
Engaged. Miss Alicia Patterson, daughter of Joseph Medill Patterson, publisher of Liberty, the Chicago Tribune, the New York Daily News, to James Simpson Jr., son of James Simpson, President of Marshall Field & Co. On the day the engagement was announced, J. Ledyard Smith, rival suitor, obtained a license to marry her. Later he returned...