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...Norris Holferd of California to the post of chairman, and of Franklin Williams of New York, currently a National Planning Committee member and attorney for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, to the post of vice-chairman. Observers say Williams' probable opponent will be Chat Patterson, present AVC legislative representative, who has strong support from FDR, Jr. In the ring for the chairmanship, apparently with Bolte's backing, is Richard Bolling of Kansas City, an official of Americans for Democratic Action. In addition, policy disputes will no doubt arise (in the corridors they are fast taking shape...
WILLIAM L. PATTERSON Secretary, Public Relations Commission Communist Party of Illinois Chicago...
...Blitz Calls." In those days Handy Andy was at the top and he always worked at the top. At one time or another he had turned his persuasive efforts on Secretary of War Robert Patterson (to get the Garssons an E award); Under Secretary of War Kenneth Royall (to see about unfreezing Garsson funds, which were held up during profit re-negotiations); General Brehon Somervell, wartime head of the Army Service Forces (to investigate a cutback contract for Garsson-made truck bodies). Lieut. General Levin H. Campbell Jr., former Chief of Ordnance, heard from Andy so often he began...
...reception at the office. It is a command performance: his employees file past their morning-coated boss (a police dog mounts guard at his side), shake his hand, then pass on to the cigars and the punch bowl. Watching the show, his cousin, the late Captain Joseph Medill Patterson of the New York Daily News, once drily observed: "Bertie certainly likes to crack the whip and watch the serfs march...
Flynn, who had worked his way to a salary of more than $100,000 a year, inherited Joe Patterson's old title of president of the News; Dick Clarke, another $100,000-a-year hand, was re-elected secretary. Colonel McCormick made it clear that he was content to confine himself to his Tribune. Said he to a friend: "I don't want to mix in. The trouble with Hearst is that all his papers sound and look alike. I want the News and the Chicago Tribune to be different. Dick Clarke worked under Patterson so long...