Word: pattonisms
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Eleven years ago the directors of International Paper Co. plucked Archibald Robertson Graustein from a big Boston law firm, made him head of the world's biggest paper company at 39. Five years later President Graustein found love in the person of one Claire Patton, who was earning a modest living as a hostess in Manhattan's democratic Roseland Dance Hall. He whisked her off to Texas, married her. By this time Mr. Graustein's company was called International Paper & Power, and it was more a power company than paper company. Last week, having sloughed off most...
...direct assault on the House Senator Black pilloried obscure Congressman Patton of Texas, smearing him for days with imputations of having accepted a bribe, although all that the Senator was able to prove was that the Representative had been seen to depart from the hotel room of a utility man carrying a cigar box which one witness did not think contained cigars...
Gaped Representative Patton: "I've never been so chagrined. . . . I never heard tell of the little...
Apparently more than willing to believe that Power had paid up to $3,000 for the vote of one obscure Representative, the committee inquired how had Representative Patton, admittedly a poor man. managed to buy $3,000 worth of Government bonds during a period when his salary was only...
...might be," said overwrought Nat Patton, "that I used some money out of my own pocket." Over the week-end he recalled ownership of $886 in lien notes and Texas State warrants which, added to $1,100 in mileage and cash on hand," brought his total funds for the period...