Word: pattersons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With "extreme regret" President Hoover lost a fourth member of his original Cabinet last week. Chicago's Robert Patterson Lamont resigned as Secretary of Commerce.* Next day Charles Michael Schwab, Bethlehem Steel's chairman, announced that Mr. Lamont would be elected president of the American Iron & Steel Institute...
Kansas Republicans picked Banker Ben Sandford Paulen, onetime Governor, to make the Senate race. Renominated by the Democrats was Senator George McGill who handily defeated a lone Wet opponent. The only Wet to make any snowing in dust-dry Kansas was Edward White Patterson, a Democratic lawyer pledged to Repeal who squeaked through to a House nomination in the heavily Republican 3rd Congressional district. Because Reapportionment cost Kansas one House seat, Republican Representatives Strong and Lambertson had to fight it out for the ist District's nomination. Mr. Strong, ardent Hooverite, was defeated...
...Last week Liberty announced with pride a net profit of $103,222 for the past five months, first profit ever shown by the magazine into which Publishers McCormick & Patterson are supposed to have sunk $12,000,000 before Bernarr Macfadden acquired it in April...
...Except the Detroit Daily, traded to Patterson & McCormick as part payment for Liberty...
...years ago the publishers had no squeamishness about having the sheet called a "tabloid." Only because of the Manhattan Daily News and Boston Record did the U. S. reading public know that such things as condensed newspapers existed. But in the ensuing decade the tabloids of Hearst, Macfadden, Patterson & McCormick performed startling exploits, created for the word "tabloid'' a special meaning of loudness, blatancy, sexationalism...