Word: patterson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Salvage Job. Liberty has tried hard to live down an unhappy past. Its masthead each week carries a significant sentence: "No longer connected with Macfadden Publications or the Chicago Tribune." The magazine's founding fathers, Colonel Robert R. McCormick and Captain Joseph Patterson, launched it 21 years ago as a poor man's Saturday Evening Post, won readers but never did influence advertisers. Then Bernarr ("Body Love") Macfadden took over, cheap-jacked its contents, built up 2,700,000 circulation, but still lost money...
fleet? Air admirals like Aubrey Fitch, back in Washington from the Pacific, flatly said "yes." But from the Pentagon across the Potomac, Under Secretary of War Robert Patterson said "no" - the Japs' failure to retaliate against Admiral Halsey's Third Fleet and the Superfortresses merely meant that they were hoarding "plenty" of planes against invasion. Another air admiral, DeWitt Clinton ("Duke") Ramsey, new Fifth Fleet chief of staff, defined "plenty." He estimated the enemy hoard at 9,000 planes...
...servicemen now hospitalized in Europe will have been brought home and some 90 Army general hospitals (out of 99) in Britain will be closed. As the main body of the Army Medical Corps moved toward the new main fighting front, Under Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson and Major General Paul R. Hawley, chief surgeon of the European Theater, proudly summarized the Army's medical record in Europe. Army Surgeon General Norman T. Kirk looked hopefully to the future...
...with a British election, things are different. . . . So when a distinguished tabloid member of the McCorrnick-Patterson axis says that [Churchill should be elected], it is only exercising a prerogative that it would be the first to deny...
...this wasteland of "wrecked masonry surrounded by city limits" on the hot heels of the doughboys. They had been preparing for their job since last September. They knew from aerial maps what damage the city had taken. They were familiar with its industries, its former government, its utilities. Colonel Patterson and his staff had worked out instructions for banks, police and fire officials, postmaster, communications men and all necessary functionaries...