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After a peg-legged, 73-year-old union organizer named Lawrence ("Peggy") Dwyer had told how his hotel room was dynamited in 1933, the Committee dramatically produced the men convicted of the dynamiting. Unthank, said swart Chris Patterson, had paid him $100 for the job, $50 per month salary during the ten months he served in prison for it. But, he protested, he had not actually touched off the explosion. He had paid one R. C. Tackett $50 to do that...
...shooting charge, he had refused to venture up to Washington except under Federal protection. With his Adam's apple bobbing, Tackett kept glancing nervously back at the bosses and deputies in the audience as he told the Senate Committee how the dynamiting had been plotted among Unthank, himself, Patterson and the prosecuting attorney of adjoining Bell County. He had been too drunk to do the job, he twanged, but had been paid $30 to keep his mouth shut. He knew the money came from the Harlan County Coal Operators' Association because Unthank had told...
...Officially admitted in the registration was ownership of the Milwaukee Sentinel, ostensibly a Paul Block property. Publisher Block leases the Sentinel from Publisher Hearst. Last week Mr. Hearst leased his Washington Herald to Mrs. Eleanor ("Cissy") Patterson, sister of Publisher Joseph Medill Patterson of the tabloid New York Daily News. In seven years as its editor & publisher, she has seen its circulation rise from...
...midweek the triple murder mystery had reached such a news-picture frenzy that decent, practical, socialite Publisher Joseph Medill Patterson of the tabloid News, with front and back pages, a double-page spread inside, and five other pages of the day's issue already devoted to the Gedeon case, felt impelled to ask himself publicly: "Should we have done this?" By printing a ravishing body view of the murdered Veronica Gedeon smack in his editorial column beside the face of Chief Justice Hughes, Self-Critic Patterson boosted his paper's total of the murdered Veronica's pictures...
...What Is the Best Story?" was the headline of his editorial, which debated the News's wallowing treatment of the murders as contrasted with its brief recording of the Supreme Court's important batch of decisions the day after Easter (TIME, April 5). Wrote Publisher Patterson: "If we could print only one of the two stories we'd choose the Supreme Court. . . . Perhaps people should be more interested today in the Supreme Court than in the Gedeon murder, but we don't think they are. . . . Murder sells papers, books, plays because we are all fascinated...