Word: patterson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yokohoma a mob booed War Secretary Patterson, who had picked this unlucky moment for a Pacific inspection trip, until a provost marshal told them: "You are insulting a man who was a soldier before you were born...
...infantry captain in World War I, Secretary Patterson won the Distinguished Service Cross for a courageous daylight patrol...
Last week, in the opinion of tidy, martinettish Lieut. General Robert Charlwood Richardson Jr., chief of Army forces in the mid-Pacific, Stars and Stripes went too far. It headlined a story of the Manila riots: "Patterson [Secretary of War] Branded Number One Enemy by Jeering Mob." "Nellie" Richardson forthwith forbade the editors "to refer in your newspaper discourteously to the President of the U.S., the Secretary of War, the Chief of Staff of the Army or to others in authority in the Army...
...minds, this was not good enough. In Manila, the news completed a breakdown in Army morale, started thousands of men protesting and demonstrating. In speech and pamphlet, leaders of the "Going Home" agitation struck out against "imperialism," "militarism," the big brass, War Secretary Patterson, Congress-even businessmen. Highpoint men threatened to "lie down" until sent home; 12,000 men booed an explanation of the slowdown offered by Lieut. General Wilhelm D. Styer...
...Secretary Patterson ridiculed the charge, and the Navy charts (a "fancy brochure" . . . "diversionary effort"). On lower levels the shrill cries were re-echoed...