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...PATTERSON...
...evidence above, razor-sharp Publisher Joseph Medill Patterson, of the New York Daily News, is alarmed over the possibility that Wendell Willkie may be a Presidential candidate against Franklin Roosevelt in 1944. (Daily News circulation: 2,000,000 copies, largest in the U.S.). Since Franklin Roosevelt's candidacy is assured, and since Publisher Patterson, like his cousin Robert Rutherford McCormick of the Chicago Tribune, badly wants an Old Guard Republican in the White House, the Patterson blows fall heaviest on Candidate Willkie. At regular intervals, anti-Willkie, anti-Roosevelt Mr. Patterson keeps the ball rolling with the editorial query...
...Last week's libel news: 1) Washington Times-Herald Publisher Eleanor ("Cissie") Patterson withdrew her $250,000 suit against Columnist-Radio Commentator Walter Winchell, who had criticized a Times-Herald editorial. One reason: she had learned that "Winchell's contract with his radio sponsor . . . allows him to escape payment of any judgment that may be rendered against him. ..." 2) When New York Daily News Washington Bureau Chief John O'Donnell's libel suit against Publisher J. David Stern's Philadelphia Record, which had called O'Donnell a "Naziphile," was tried several months...
...landed gently he was on the platform of a great hall in 1944. Before him a rousing parade was in progress. At its head, astride the White Horse, rode Representative Hamilton Fish, magnificent in khaki and gold braid. The White Horse was walking backward. Next came Colonel McCormick, Captain Patterson and "Cissie" Patterson, dressed as the Spirit of '76 with drums and fife abeat and asqueal. They were followed by rank on rank of portly male and female Delegates, all dressed like Grand Marshal Fish, all on similar white horses, each flaunting a khaki banner blazoned with four silver...
...native state, will yield to Wisconsin, which the General still claims as home, when the nominating roll call begins. "Can't you visualize the war whoop," he cries, "when Arkansas, third state on the roll call, rises to yield to Wisconsin!" Representative Fish, who shares with the McCormick-Patterson family his enthusiasm for MacArthur as an anti-New Deal candidate, has introduced a bill to repeal the Army ban on the political candidacies of men in active service...