Word: pattersons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Editor Carmack was shot down for personal reasons after he had failed to beat Malcolm Rice ("Ham") Patterson, a Wet from Memphis, for the Governorship. In his martyrdom Carmack accomplished what his campaign failed of: the 1909 General Assembly's first act was to pass
...over Governor Patterson's veto) Tennessee's first prohibition law. (A second act: to erect a heroic Carmack statue at the Capitol's entrance...
...Assembly's repealer. This deed may alter Mr. Cooper's political future, but it did not alter the legislators' minds. Crying, "We've got the liquor now: let's regulate and tax it!" they overrode Governor Cooper even as a Dry Assembly overrode Wet Patterson 30 years...
...rapid succession Executive Bitner and Hearst himself junked papers in Rochester and Omaha, leased the Washington Times to Cissie Patterson (who bought both Times and Herald outright this year), sold Hearst's half-interest in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, combined the staffs of morning and evening papers in Milwaukee, folded Universal Service into International News, tabbed the Boston American. This plugged a drainage of nearly $5,000,000 a year. Executives White and Hearst Jr. began liquidating the Hearst art treasures. Executive Connolly got rid of seven radio stations for $1,215,000. Executive Huberth told Hearst real-estate...
Last week Publisher Patterson announced his acquisition of The Farmer's Wife. The combined magazines will have a circulation well above the Curtis Country Gentleman's, 1,840,000, largest farm coverage...