Word: patterson
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...Every Assistant Secretary of War since 1921 has been a veteran of World War I and an American Legionnaire ; all but two have been lawyers. Louis Johnson's successor failed to fill these requirements in one notable respect: Robert Porter Patterson, although he belongs to the Legion, is in no sense "a Legion man" in a job which the Legion long since took for its own. Major Patterson was decorated for bravery in the A. E. F., served in the same division with, but barely knew, Colonel Henry Stimson. After World War I, when both were distinguished attorneys...
...Judge Patterson was wearing an Army private's blue fatigue overalls when he got his new job last week. In fact he was on the lowest detail which an Army private can get: kitchen police (taking out garbage, chopping wood) at the Plattsburg training camp. Colonel James I. Muir, the camp commander, forthwith ordered him out of the kitchen, was relieved to catch K. P. Patterson just before he began his menial chore...
Engaged. Mary Marvin Breckinridge, 34, globe-trotting socialite photographer, reporter, European CBS radio newscaster; and Jefferson Patterson, first secretary of the U. S. Embassy in Berlin...
Burly, unconventional, democratic Publisher Joseph Medill Patterson of New York's Daily News has for a long time urged on his 1,950,000 New York readers a preparedness slogan: Two Ships For One. Editor Patterson was very worried about how to defend the U. S. Atlantic Coast while the Fleet stayed in the Pacific to watch Japan...
...most sudden and spectacular editorial turnabout of the year, Captain Patterson ran these words: "Might it not be intelligent for this Government to warm up to Japan? . . . The United States may be able to help China more effectively by being polite to Japan than by persistently hurling threats. . . . We may drive Japan into the German-Italian camp. That would make Japan more dangerous to us than it now is. If Hitler should win the war, and especially if he should grab the British Navy as one of the spoils of such a victory, we might easily find ourselves menaced with...