Word: patterson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...said Europe was hungry? Just a lot of hogwash for Uncle Sap, said Captain Joseph Patterson's New York Daily News. The News had sent Robert Conway, one of its local men, on a junket to Iceland; he had gone on to Europe on his own. From Rome he sent home a story which the News headlined...
Last week Secretary of War Patterson, Army Chief of Staff Eisenhower and A.A.F. Boss Spaatz unrolled the figures again. By July 1 this year, the Army will need 1,550,000 men for occupation forces, home defense and replacements. Within a year it will be cut to 1,070,000-a figure it must maintain until the need for occupation is over. Of the total Army strength, the Air Forces want...
...maintain an Army of that size, Patterson insisted, continuation of the draft was an absolute necessity. Demobilization had already drained off most of the old Army. He had promised to release all drafted men as they reached two years' service, beginning June 30. Though the total of volunteers had passed the 600,000 mark, the monthly rate was beginning to fall off. Without the spur of the draft, it would probably drop sharply. The Army could not afford to gamble; it needed the assurance of a constant manpower reservoir...
...Saturday afternoon and the Pentagon was virtually deserted when the top commanders of all the services crowded into Secretary of War Patterson's spacious office. They were there to hear Winston Churchill, who had come to renew his ties with the men he had known well during the war, to meet those he had known only from the communiques...
Married. George Longan Arnold, 24, law-student son of sardonic Trustbuster Thurman Wesley Arnold; and Ellen Cameron Pearson, 19, daughter of gossipy Washington Columnist Drew Pearson, granddaughter of vituperative Washington Publisher Eleanor Medill ("Cissie") Patterson; in Georgetown...