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Died. John Patterson Green, 95, Negro lawyer born in slavery, lifelong friend of John D. Rockefeller Sr., first Negro ever elected to a judicial office (justice of the peace) in a northern State; of injuries sustained in a Labor Day motor accident; in Cleveland. In 1887 Lawyer Green promoted the idea of a legal holiday for labor. Said he last week to his wife: "I hope I can live to be 97, like my good friend, John...
When rugged Joseph Medill moved to Chicago in 1855 and bought the Chicago Tribune, he founded a news dynasty which today controls three of the most potent papers in the U. S. One of his grandsons, Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick, now runs the Tribune. Another grandson, Captain Joseph Medill Patterson, owns the pioneer tabloid New York Daily News. Granddaughter Eleanor Medill ("Cissie") Patterson publishes the Washington Times-Herald. Their aggregate circulation is close...
...Every Assistant Secretary of War since 1921 has been a veteran of World War I and an American Legionnaire ; all but two have been lawyers. Louis Johnson's successor failed to fill these requirements in one notable respect: Robert Porter Patterson, although he belongs to the Legion, is in no sense "a Legion man" in a job which the Legion long since took for its own. Major Patterson was decorated for bravery in the A. E. F., served in the same division with, but barely knew, Colonel Henry Stimson. After World War I, when both were distinguished attorneys...
...Judge Patterson was wearing an Army private's blue fatigue overalls when he got his new job last week. In fact he was on the lowest detail which an Army private can get: kitchen police (taking out garbage, chopping wood) at the Plattsburg training camp. Colonel James I. Muir, the camp commander, forthwith ordered him out of the kitchen, was relieved to catch K. P. Patterson just before he began his menial chore...
...most accounts, Robert Patterson's appointment was a good choice. But the new Assistant Secretary will have to hump himself to do credit to Franklin Roosevelt for making a change at such a time. Said Columnist Hugh Johnson: "It [the Assistant-Secretaryship] is no task for an amateur. . . . It would take a new man a year even to get the feel of it. We have no years to spare-not even days...