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...challenger was young (39), idealistic, hard-working James G. Patton, president of the up-&-coming but small Farmers Union (125,000 low-income farm families). He stands foursquare for 100% (not 110%) parity farm prices, family farming as against big-scale commercial agriculture, cooperation with labor...
...Neal, who knows that Patton has the respect and support of A.F. of L., C.I.O. and the Railway Brotherhoods, romped & stomped over Patton's promise that the farmer and organized labor can be brought to agree to wage and fair-price ceilings. O'Neal, on no such good terms with labor, swore it could not be so. If O'Neal was right, any effective inflation-control program was a political impossibility. His big head bobbing in emphasis, Patton drove home his answers. Patton remained calm, sure of his ground. O'Neal was mad enough to burst...
...Patton's second White House visit within a fortnight. The first time, in his rumbling organ voice, he promised Farmers Union's support for the President's anti-inflation program. He insisted that necessary wartime food production can come only from the individual farmer, with emphasis away from wheat and one-crop products-to hell, he said, with bigger AAA payments for farmers who do not produce...
James George Patton came up the hard way. He was born in Bazar, Kans. in 1902, the year the Farmers Union (full name: Farmers Educational & Cooperative Union of America) was founded by a liberal, farm-minded printer and ten farmers in a barn near Point, Tex. When his miner-engineer-farmer father died in Colorado, young Jim had to support his mother, three sisters, a wife and child, and a mortgaged farm. He worked his way through college, managed a co-op insurance company, taught school, finally became secretary of the Colorado Farmers Union in 1934. In 1940 he became...
...contested-will case in a vestryman's age was fought in a White Plains, N.Y. court between the Rev. Dr. Henry Darlington, businesslike, 53-year-old rector of Manhattan's fashionable Church of the Heavenly Rest, and relatives of the late, 78-year-old Mrs. Anna H. Patton, who last year left the minister 30% of her $1,300,000. The relatives charged that Dr. Darlington had made love to the widow for ten years to get the money; Dr. Darlington's attorneys described the relationship as pure mother-&-son. Twenty-eight affectionate letters were introduced...