Word: patterson
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...week, and he had zipped through it in the decisive style that is now recognized as typically Truman. In one terse, five-minute press conference (see PRESS), he made the week's biggest news. He made his first appointment to the Supreme Court. He made tough-minded Robert Patterson his Secretary of War, gave his kudos and the Distinguished Service Medal to retiring Old Soldier-Elder Statesman Henry L. Stimson. With one hurried stroke he had put the scattered war labor-relations bureaus under Labor Secretary Lewis B. Schwellenbach. With one brusque stroke he had cut Economic Stabilizer William...
Senator Burton, who has had plenty of legislative and administrative experience (he was mayor of Cleveland for six years) but has never sat on a judicial bench, was not the President's first choice. That choice had been Robert Patterson, who became the new U.S. Secretary of War (see below...
Elder Statesman Stimson was still young enough to run his own show. He did, and not even Chief of Staff George Marshall ever doubted who was boss. Neither did the three strong men who came in as civilian aides: Judge Robert P. Patterson, his Under Secretary, and his Assistant Secretaries Robert A. Lovett and John Jay McCloy...
Nevertheless, Congress was on edge to get demobilization going even faster. The public had put the heat on Congressmen, and they passed it on to the War and Navy Departments. Suddenly the Senate Military Affairs Committee decided to haul in War Department officials for questioning. When Under Secretary Robert Patterson pointed out that the rate of discharges had already passed 10,000 a day, a Senator replied, "We are getting 10,000 letters...
Russia made it clear, indirectly, that she had not been offered the bomb. An angry article in New Times (successor to the Soviet trade unions' War and the Working Class) urged international pooling of atomic data. New Times bastinadoed the "Hearst-Patterson-McCormick press" for suggesting that the U.S. hold the bomb threat over international negotiations, and added: ". . . The fundamental principles are well known, and henceforth it is simply a question of time before any country will be able to produce atomic bombs...