Word: patterson
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After seven years in the War Department, the last 22 months as efficient, plodding, meticulous Secretary of War, Robert P. Patterson last week handed in his resignation. Ever since the war ended, he had wanted to return to his private law practice in Manhattan. He nursed the hope that he might be appointed to fill the next Supreme Court vacancy. His cue to resign, said Bob Patterson, was Congress' all-but-final action last week on the merger bill which he had helped put through. The bill, passed by the House, went to a Senate-House conference this week...
...bill would not merge all U.S. fighting arms into a single fighting service, as Patterson had originally hoped. But it would coordinate the equal departments of Army, Navy and the new, autonomous Air Forces under a single, Cabinet-rank Secretary of National Security* (TIME, Jan. 27). The Navy would keep control of its own air forces (roughly parallel to Britain's Fleet Air Arm); the Marine Corps would keep its traditional alliance with the Navy. It was victory enough for Bob Patterson...
...fill out Patterson's job and possibly to continue in the subordinate Army post after merger becomes a fact, the President nominated able, even-tempered, 6 ft. 5 in. Under Secretary Kenneth C. Royall. A former $50,000-a-year trial lawyer in Goldsboro, N.C., Royall had reluctantly abandoned his independent, easygoing life soon after World War II began, to accept a colonelcy in the Army Service Force's Legal Section...
...does not soon transfer surplus arms to Latin American governments, warned War Secretary Robert Patterson last week, they will seek arms and training "elsewhere." The Secretary did not say where. But Argentina had already ordered jet fighters from Britain, and Russia had large stocks of German tanks and planes to spare...
Secretary Patterson was testifying in Washington on behalf of the so-called Truman plan to standardize hemisphere arms out of U.S. arsenals. The U.S. Army & Navy had marshaled their biggest brass to get the bill passed before the Rio conference opens, presumably next month...