Word: pattersons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great publishing House of Patterson-McCormick, and of no other, it could be said with certainty last week that it was about to help elect a President of the U. S. Reason: Partner Joseph Medill Patterson, as boss of the House's New York News (circulation: 1,600,000), has given Franklin Roosevelt the wholehearted support of the nation's biggest newspaper; Partner Robert Rutherford McCormick, as boss of the House's Chicago Tribune (circulation: 784,000), has made the nation's second biggest newspaper its most rabid anti-Roosevelt sheet. In a Presidential campaign...
Roosevelt 6 Love Nests. On March 6, 1933 the tabloid News announced that it would support the new President for one year, do what he would. One of the earliest and most enthusiastic subscribers to the NRA newspaper code, Publisher Patterson found when his year of grace was up that Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal had become firmly fixed in his affections. Of his readers' interests he declared: "Roosevelt and the NRA have taken the place of love nests...
Primarily a picture paper, the News's brief, breezy coverage of political news has, in a campaign marked by biased reporting, been comparatively impartial. To compensate for New Deal slanting, Publisher Patterson made a notable contribution to political journalism. Early last summer he announced that, for the remainder of the campaign, the News would daily donate the full page opposite the editorial page to the Republican and Democratic National Committees. Each camp could present whatever it liked in the way of argument, invective, cartoon; the News would print their contributions side by side without altering so much...
News readers have been treated to the spectacle of crack Republican and Democratic pressagents in-fighting as never before, exchanging curse for curse, sneer for sneer, puff for puff. After a week's trial Publisher Patterson offered his entertaining and educational innovation free to other newspapers through the Chicago Tribune-New York News-Syndicate. The 29 takers which he had last week did not include his syndicate partner in Chicago...
...Captain Patterson and the Newsmen airily labeled this sensible stand as "walking out" on a "tentative promise" to take up the bet. Of his own poll, Captain Patterson remarked on the editorial page: "Only time will tell how accurate this poll is. . . . Our 1928 poll was inaccurate. . . . Since that time, we have reliably predicted results in this State...