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Race feeling ran sufficiently high in one judicial district to defeat Judge James E. Horton for renomination. Last year Judge Horton gained nation-wide fame by setting aside on grounds of insufficient evidence the death verdict rendered in his court against Negro Heywood Patterson, one of the "Scottsboro Boys...
...idea by an energetic literary agent named Sanford Greenburger, whose other clients included the late Author Jakob Wassermann and Edouard Herriot. Greenburger, in turn, had been sold by the book's ghostwriter, a onetime lawyer who married a night-club singer friend of Miss Nesbit. Editor Joseph Medill Patterson of the News, who bought the serial to bolster the usual summer circulation slump, proudly announced last week that the feature had upped sales...
...Lines Transport Corp., a $10,743,000 company to acquire all outstanding stock of Boeing Air Transport, Pacific Air Transport, Varney Air Lines, United Airports Co. of California, United Air Lines and at least 99% of National Air Transport. This new transport company will be headed by William Allen Patterson, onetime San Francisco banker who became president of United Air Lines last August. United Aircraft Corp., a $15,692,000 company to acquire all outstanding stock of Chance Vought Corp., Hamilton Standard Propeller Co., Northrop Aircraft Corp., Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Co., United Aircraft Exports Inc., The United Airports of Connecticut...
...thwart the increasing tendency of U. S. soldiers, sailors and marines to go crazy. The Senate passed a House bill forbidding the three services to keep an officer or enlisted man on duty in the tropics and certain foreign stations longer than two years. Surgeon General Robert Urie Patterson of the Army pleaded before a Senate committee for the two year restriction. About 500 men are being discharged from the Army each year because of mental derangements. Most common cause is dementia praecox. The large majority of cases arise in the Army's overseas departments-the Philippines, Hawaii, Canal...
Near Gainesville, Ga., Blacksmith Hamby Patterson, 70, proudly flashed a set of homemade teeth, explaining: "When my teeth begun to ache, my grandson, he got a horseshoe nail and a hammer and knocked one out. Then I decided to make some pullers and do the rest of the job myself. After all my teeth was out, I made a mold on a brick. Then I melted things from the kitchen-a dipper, boiler, or anything-and made myself these brand new aluminum teeth...