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...Last week RKO, still involved in a five-year-old reorganization, acquired a new board chairman, Richard Cunningham Patterson Jr., who has announced his resignation as Assistant Secretary of Commerce...
Joseph S. Stern '40 of Cincinnati, O., will succeed Constantine W. Patterson '39 as varsity tennis manager for the 1940 season...
...State Department he transferred the foreign offices of Commerce and Agriculture. (Assistant Secretary of Commerce Richard C. Patterson Jr., already miffed by the elevation over him of Edward J. Noble to Harry Hopkins' elbow, promptly resigned.) Also, the Foreign Service Buildings Commission, hitherto independent...
...next morning 'Nicholas Spicer' learned that two policemen were on the lookout for the man who struck Billy Patterson. . . . His distaste for legal proceedings caused him to lay the case before a friend at the hotel. . . . This gentleman engaged two newsboys to traverse the streets of the city, asking every person old or young, 'Who struck Billy Patterson?' The policemen soon retired, but the question was caught up by hundreds of lips, and the query soon found a place in the daily journals, whence it spread with electric rapidity through all parts of the Union...
...There was also a State income tax"). Next to Hearst were President Mortimer Berkowitz of Hearst's American Weekly ($265,225), Publisher Joseph Pulitzer of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch ($255,000). Robert R. McCormick of the Chicago Tribune got $50,000, same sum his cousin Joseph Medill Patterson drew from New York's tabloid Daily News. Others: Publisher William Franklin Knox of the Chicago Daily News, $75,000; Robert L. ("Believe It or Not") Ripley from King Features Syndicate, $149,777; New York Daily News Managing Editor Harvey Deuel, $130,567; Publisher Frank Gannett from the Gannett...