Word: pattersons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When his Government loans began to gall, he went to Washington to get them extended, spent $11,360 in 30 days on "entertainment." The Shipping Board's comptroller recommended disapproval of the extension because Export Steamship owed $3,952,000, had assets of only $1,172,199. Robert Patterson Lamont, then Secretary of Commerce, wrote the Shipping Board that he saw no objection in the 3-to-1 balance sheet...
...Joseph Medill Patterson, who rarely appears, looked bored but patriotic. He didn't mind the walk for he had marched in the big war with an artillery outfit...
...Liberal Party. Eye trouble which left him almost totally blind forced him to retire from politics, devote himself to fishing and duck raising on his 2,000 Northumberland acres. He is bitterly attacked in Lloyd George's memoirs, published on the day of his death.* Died. Elinor Medill Patterson, 78, daughter of the Chicago Tribune's founder, Joseph Medill; relict of its onetime editor, Robert Wilson Patterson; aunt of its present publisher, Col. Robert Rutherford McCormick; mother of President Joseph Medill Patterson of the New York Daily News and of Editor Eleanor Medill Patterson of the Washington Herald...
...players from 1907 to 1920, Champion Crawford received more than his notion of what kind of bat to use. Now a Melbourne manufacturer, in his middle 50's, Norman Brookes still plays formidable tennis. Last winter he teamed with Vines in a doubles match against Gledhill and Gerald Patterson, whose victory at Wimbledon in 1922 was the last by a British subject until Crawford's this year. Brookes's stubborn ambition to bring the Davis Cup back to Australia had something to do with the tour that gave Crawford and his confreres a chance to play...
Selling newspapers in Chicago is a hard-boiled business. To the strong-arm methods of oldtime Chicago circulation managers some historians trace the origin of gangsterism. Famed in Chicago for circulation getting is the name of Annenberg. Max Annenberg was circulation manager of the Patterson-McCormick Tribune, now holds a similar job for the other Patterson-McCormick paper, Manhattan's Daily News. Equally proficient and long employed by Publisher Hearst was Max's brother Moses. Last week, quite unintentionally, Brother Moses made news. Virtually unknown to the world at large, Moe Annenberg has become a "big shot...