Word: pattersons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Patterson: "I have a good mind to ask you both to leave...
...lose, a squabble with pontifical Eugene Meyer over a comic strip is precisely the sort of antic that delights publicity-wise "Cissy" Patterson. Her three-year career as editor, during which the Herald has gained 23,000 circulation, has been marked by many another conspicuous exploit. First thing after taking office she promoted and front-paged a quarrel with Alice Roosevelt Longworth, managing to involve also Ruth Hanna McCormick and Idaho's Senator Borah. She published an interview with the Haitian Minister purporting to show that a fort, once captured by General Smedley Butler, did not exist. General Butler...
Beginning by raising salaries, even paying the difference out of her own pocket, "Cissy" Patterson easily ingratiated herself with her staff. She dashes to the office in an open 16-cylinder Cadillac, sometimes in riding habit, sometimes in evening dress. At her command is the vocabulary of a circulation-wrangler. Often she entertains her reporters in the magnificent house on Dupont Circle (formerly Daisy Harriman's) where the Coolidges stayed following the White House fire. Also she has bought and is rebuilding the famed Dower House near Rosaryville, Md., once owned by Lord Baltimore...
...Patterson's experiences are reported in her Herald. During last year's presidential campaign she journeyed to Warm Springs in her private car "Ranger," gave a number of parties aboard, served champagne copiously. One of the guests, Louis Ruppel, then correspondent for Patterson-&-McCormick's New York Daily News, now Assistant Commissioner of Narcotics, made some critical observation of Publisher Joseph Medill Patterson. Said his hostess...
...jumped another guest, Professor Raymond Moley (who was not drinking): "I think you are the one that's cheap, Mrs. Patterson, for making a remark like that to one of your guests...