Word: patterson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Patterson made his first explosive announcement since becoming Secretary of War (TIME, Oct. 1). He had completed a personal investigation of 57-year-old Colonel Theodore Wyman Jr., the Army's district engineer in Hawaii at the time of the Pearl Harbor attack, and found him a fit officer and gentleman...
...board also found that Rutgers-educated Colonel Wyman had lied to his superiors about his knowledge of Friend Rohl's German citizenship, which made Rohl ineligible to handle secret Army contracts. Patterson did not disagree...
...Patterson did not mention the rest of Ted Wyman's gaudy career. For his "meritorious and distinguished service in Hawaii," he got the D.S.M. Then he was assigned to the ill-fated Canol Project and the Alcan Highway. At the request of the Canadian Government he was removed. But he stayed on the job in Canada long enough to be officially reprimanded for "failure to enforce safety regulations" after one of his contractors' trucks exploded, killing eleven men and destroying a third of the town of Dawson Creek...
When Stimson stepped out, his right-hand man stepped up. By promoting earnest, dull and difficult Bob Patterson, President Truman made sure of continuity in War Department policy during the troublous demobilization months, the Pearl Harbor inquiry, the coming battle over the armed forces merger...
...Secretary Patterson won the D.S.C. as a company commander in the 77th (Statue of Liberty) Division in World War I, came home to the law. In 1940 he took time off from the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals bench in Manhattan, went to Plattsburg to retrain for the new war he saw coming. One afternoon, while emptying garbage cans with a KP detail, he got his summons from Stimson...