Word: pattison
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Addressing himself to the "colonial rabble before me in this far-flung corner of the earth," be-whiskered George William Pattison, a veteran of the British Royal Dragoons, said that sticking with Great Britain would have given Louisiana to the U.S. for nothing, averted the Civil War, the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and remarked that if there had been no revolution "you would be able to make a decent...
...final rebuttal, Pattison admitted that the Revolution was a turning point, but questioned whether that made it necessarily good. The U. S. "plundered" the continent, he claimed, and added that American Democracy had its roots in Locke and the British revolution of the 17th century. Even Watt, he said, "was neither Russian nor American...
...British debaters, Denzil J. Freeth and George Pattison, will discuss the benefits this country would have received if it had stayed within the Empire and waited for eventual liberalization...
...Philip Bahn '49 and Edward F. Burke '50 will represent the Crimson team with a negative argument, while the affirmative will be presented by Britishers George W. Pattison and Denzil K. Freeth. Melvin L. Zurier '50, president of the Debate Council, will be chairman of the debate...
Last week the Logan prize went to a piece of sculpture, Kneeling Women by Abbott Lawrence Pattison, now in the Naval Reserve Midshipmen's School in Chicago. There was not a peep from Mrs. Logan. Chicago Art Institute Director Daniel Catton Rich, who puts on the yearly show of Chicago's artists, breathed a sigh of relief...