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Independent engineers agreed that Douglas Dam was needed; so did President Roosevelt, Under Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson, everybody on SPAB. OPM's Bill Batt called the one-man fight against Douglas Dam an "irreparable blow to the national defense program"; McKel- lar's constituents bombarded him with angry letters. Finally he had to give...
...week nominated his own Hall of Fame-"a partial list of fearless Ameri-cans": 1) Colonel Robert R. McCormick, publisher of the Chicago Tribune. 2) Father Charles E. Coughlin, of Royal Oak, Mich. 3) Gerald B. Winrod, anti-Semite, anti-Catholic editor of The Defender, Wichita, Kans. 4) Eleanor Patterson, publisher, Washington Times-Herald. 5) Elizabeth Billing, Chicago Red-baiter. 6) Joseph M. Patterson, publisher, the New York Daily News. 7) Congressman Martin Dies of Texas. 8) William Randolph Hearst. 9) The editors of the Brooklyn Tablet, Coughlin-supporting weekly. 10) Father Edward Lodge Curran, of Brooklyn, also a Coughlin...
...Cissie Patterson's feud with Pearson & Allen was more complex and fiercer than the others in which she often engages. She has close family and professional ties with Columnist Drew Pearson. He is her ex-son-in-law and father of her only granddaughter Ellen, now 15, in whose favor Cissie was said to have drawn a will leaving her fortune (about $40,000,000) and the Times-Herald...
Columnist Pearson, the more politic of the Pearson & Allen team, had long made himself agreeable to Publisher Patterson. He brought her their column-generally believed to be one of her paper's best circulation-pullers-in 1934 for $100 a week. (Cissie liked its pro-New Deal slant then.) To please her he even went so far as to judge Times-Herald beauty contests...
...bill was no joke. Said Under Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson: "There are a million tons of rubber on our highways now. That must be conserved. . . . Wasteful use of rubber will soon be a memory. The automobile petting parties will have to go. ... Our situation can become critical if the Sunday trips to see Uncle Joe are continued. I agree . . . that we must hold our tires as a public trust...