Word: pattersons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...throughout much of the South. They were, in fact, hunting for trouble-and last week in Alabama they found more of it than they wanted. For in Alabama, mobs were permitted to run free and wild by top state and local officials who, from Alabama's Governor John Patterson on down, abdicated their duties of maintaining law and order. The result by week's end was a brutal, bloody outbreak of violence that brought on the gravest federal-state conflict since Little Rock...
...conspicuously absent when the blood began to flow. Said tough, bullfrog-voiced Police Commissioner Eugene ("Bull") Connor later: "Our people of Birmingham are a peaceful people, and we never have any trouble here unless some people come into our city looking for trouble." Said Alabama's Governor John Patterson: "I cannot guarantee protection for this bunch of rabble-rousers." Not everyone in Alabama was so complacent about the situation. The Birmingham News, which last year vigorously denounced the New York Times for saying that fear and hatred stalked the streets of Birmingham. now conceded that "fear and hatred...
...protect the Nashville bus riders, U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy warned Alabama's Governor Patterson of U.S. concern with the case, considered sending in federal marshals, and dispatched Administrative Assistant John Seigenthaler to send back firsthand reports. Bobby Kennedy tried to get Patterson on the phone. But John Patterson, who loves to spout off about states' rights, was unwilling to take on the responsibility for maintaining law and order in his state. Patterson's office declared the Governor unavailable to the U.S. Attorney General. Later, at Bobby's urging. President Kennedy himself tried to call Patterson...
Last week Newsday had a scoop of sorts in President Kennedy's reply. Newsday Editor and Publisher Alicia Patterson, who learned newspapering at the knee of her father, the late Joseph Medill Patterson, founder of the New York Daily News (see below), took for granted that she would receive the courtesy of an answer. After all, she had supported Kennedy for president, while Alicia's husband, Harry Guggenheim, president of Newsday, voted for Nixon...
Grow or Die. AMF's expansion is the work of slow-spoken, low-pressured Chairman Morehead Patterson, 64, who took over the company in 1943 from his father Rufus L. Patterson, inventor of the first automated tobacco machine. After World War II, Morehead Patterson decided that the company had to grow or die. Searching for new products, he turned up a crude prototype of an automatic bowling-pm setter. To get the necessary cash to develop the intricate gadget, Patterson swapped off AMF stock to acquire eight small companies with fast-selling products. The Pinspotter, perfected...