Word: patterson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first shot for the Army, which is strong for the merger, was fired across the long, mahogany table in the Senate caucus room by sobersided Robert Patterson, Secretary of War. Like the first shot in a bombardment, it was to fix the range. The future peace of the world, said the Secretary, would depend not only upon the policies of the U.S., but also upon the strength which the U.S. maintained to back up these policies. Having fixed the range, the Secretary began to pepper the target with arguments to prove that unification of the armed forces was necessary...
...Like Patterson, Marshall was careful to emphasize that the War Department was proposing a merger of equals; there was no suggestion that the Navy should be swallowed by the Army. They also insisted that the air forces (except liaison and scouting craft) should become the third, co-equal branch...
...shining white Chicago store. He opened a door, smiled broadly, and walked in with outstretched hand. Sewell Lee Avery beamed back, rose to shake hands. Said General David McCoach Jr. to the chairman of the board of Montgomery Ward & Co.: on the order of Secretary of War Patterson, the Army was turning the property back to its owners...
...China, where the Army decreed that correspondents would be "disaccredited" Oct. 15, newsmen discovered that they would consequently be unable to move from one city to another in U.S. planes and cars. Shanghai newsmen tried to cable Secretary of War Patterson: "We feel the provision grants Army officers too much authority to decide what the American people may read and what they may not read about activities of troops in China." An Army PRO refused to transmit the message. But since the officer had lost his censorship powers, Bob Patterson could read the message in the newspapers, which received...
Later, while in Europe in charge of the Normandy port of Cherbourg, Colonel Wyman received what the War Secretary described as "... a well-deserved Legion of Merit." Said Patterson sadly: except for the Army board's investigation and report, "Colonel Wyman would have received at least one promotion," to Brigadier General...