Word: pattersons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Greeting Commander Eckener with a praising message from President Hoover was retiring Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics, William Patterson MacCracken. Mr. MacCracken with Rear Admiral William Adger Moffett, chief of the Naval Bureau of Aeronautics, and Dr. Otto Carl Kiep, counselor of the German Embassy, took Dr. Eckener by plane to Washington to exchange respects with President Hoover and Cabinet officers. As soon as courtesy visits could be paid. Dr. Eckener rushed by motor to Dr. Kiep's home where gemutlich he snuggled into a featherbed and slept from twilight to dawn, his first careless sleep in three weeks...
...President made up his mind last week on an appointment pending since Inauguration when William Patterson MacCracken, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics, asked to be relieved. Mr. MacCracken, 40, lawyer, has been in the department for three years and handled his aeronautics duties so well that commercial aviation has been inviting him into lucrative business. However he has continued in office, including an arduous two-month inspection of European Airways (TIME, Aug. 26) until the Chief had time to consider a successor...
Count Hermann Alexander Keyserling, German philosopher-critic, said in the current issue of the Atlantic Monthly: ''Chicago is an amazing thing. It is the one place in the United States where one is actually aware of the presence of ungenerosity, ill-will and malice." Commented Mrs. Robert Patterson Lament, wife of the Secretary of Commerce, who entertained Count Keyserling last year in Chicago: "If he disliked Chicago . . . I think the fault must have been with him." Commented another Chicago Keyserling hostess: "I rather think he wrote what he wrote ... to attract attention...
MacCracken Angry. William Patterson MacCracken, Jr., Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics, after two months in Europe, was lunching on the Leviathan in New York Harbor last week. A stupid flyer, to welcome some one aboard the ship, capered and stunted so close to her that passengers fearfully ran below decks. Mr. MacCracken was angry at the foolish flyer. The incident contained irony. The Assistant Secretary had prepared a speech on flying safety to deliver over the radio. Later he did speak, declaring that the U. S. Government takes more pains to protect the flying public than any other nation...
Continuing to satisfy readers Max Annenberg gets, and new advertisers James O'Shaughnessy plans to get, will be Publisher Patterson. Since the day Liberty started, the Patterson eye has read, the Patterson hand has personally okayed every story, every article that has gone into his magazine, in much the same manner that his grandfather, the late great Publisher Joseph Medill, had put "J. M. Must" in blue pencil on every news story that appeared in his Tribune years...