Word: patterson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other was William F. Patterson, chief of the apprentice division of the U. S. Department of Labor, who warned that 25 to 33% of the production workers used in defense will have to be highly skilled, called for the present number of apprentices in training to be upped from 100,000 to 500,000. Most economists (except the die-hard C. I.O.) agreed that by mid-1941 all who could readily be employed in factories would be working-and that anyone not employed by the end of 1941 probably never would...
Secretary of War Henry Stimson was expected to resign about Jan. 1. For the vacancy New Dealers wishfully promoted Robert P. Patterson, now Assistant Secretary. But best indications were that Patterson would go with Stimson. New York City's Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia was still a strong possibility...
...military supplies. Last week A. O. A. members, who know too much to be fooled, heard a progress report on U. S. preparedness from Defense Commissioner William S. Knudsen; from the Army's Chief of Ordnance, Major General Charles M. Wesson; from Assistant Secretary of War Robert Porter Patterson...
Those summoned are Attorney General Robert H. Jackson, Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox, Assistant Secretary of War Robert Patterson, and Sidney Hillman, the Defense Commission's labor coordinator and C. I. O. Vice-President...
Professor Sidney Post Simpson of the Law School was appointed aide to Robert P. Patterson, while Law School Professors advised the Department of Justice on special problems connected with the Alien Registration Law. Now working with the Evaluation Committee of the National Research Council is Professor Harlow Shapley, director of the College Observatory...