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...York's tabloid Daily News splashed it on Page One: TRUMAN ASKS 4 JUSTICES TO QUIT. In Washington, Cissie Patterson's sister paper, the Times-Herald, gave it a black bannerline buildup. It was one of the biggest news stories of the year-if true. Never in U.S. history had a President told Supreme Court justices to get out. The story even named the four justices: Black, Jackson, Frankfurter and Murphy. To devoted News and Times-Herald readers, it looked like the straight dope. To newsmen, it did not: the "scoop" was signed by poison-penman Columnist John...
...Appointed a three-man Cabinet committee to carry out the recommendations of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry for admission of 100,000 displaced European Jews to Palestine. Members: Secretary of State Byrnes, Secretary of War Patterson, Secretary of the Treasury Snyder...
Secretaries Patterson and Forrestal, General Eisenhower and Admiral Nimitz, working under presidential pressure, had reached agreement on eight disputed points, remained deadlocked over four which Truman himself undertook to adjudicate. In forming a common front on the eight points, the Army had done most of the giving, the Navy most of the taking. There would be no Chief of Staff of all the armed forces (who, it had been feared, might become "a man on horseback"); the Joint Chiefs would remain the top military directors; there would be a Council of Common Defense and a National Security Resources Board...
...meantime, Captain Joe Patterson, always alert to potential competitors for his Daily News, had run PM off the New York stands. "It's kind of like hazing a new boy," said Patterson, taking free cuts in the air (with a boy's baseball bat, when Ingersoll went to call...
...P.A.C. there was no consolation anywhere in California. P.A.C.-backed, fellow-traveling Congressman Ellis Patterson was snowed under for the Democratic Senatorial nomination by Will Rogers Jr., a regular Democrat. Rogers will face conservative Senator William Knowland, G.O.P. choice, in the November finale...