Word: patterson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...belated equivalent of War I's "work or fight" order. First proposed last October by Connecticut's Representative Clare Boothe Luce, the replacement of drafted war workers by noncontributing 4-Fs was now suddenly endorsed by General Hershey, Secretary of War Stimson, Under Secretary Robert Patterson and Assistant Secretary of the Navy Ralph Bard. The Army & Navy would still like a National Service Act, which is politically impossible to get. They fall back on Congresswoman Luce's bill. Some dopesters thought it unnecessary, thought a public listing of 4-F idlers and nonessential workers would...
Last week the Army staged a strategic retreat. The Army clung to its major position: that Loury and Fisher had had a fair trial. But because of "facts and circumstances surrounding" the case, Under Secretary of War Robert Patterson announced that Fisher's sentence was reduced to ten years, Loury's to eight. The lieutenant, said Patterson's report, had been discharged from the service "under conditions other than honorable...
...Newest in a longtime series published in Captain Joseph Patterson's New York Daily News...
...Uncle Bertie's cousin Captain Joseph Medill Patterson, publisher of the huge, America Firstish New York Daily News, Trini Barnes says: "I'm still personally fond of him . . . a nice considerate gentleman. I asked him once why he had turned his paper into what it is and he acted surprised and said he wasn't conscious of any change. I don't believe he is." Of the Captain's sister, Eleanor "Cissie" Patterson, publisher of the Washington Times Herald, end of the McCormick-Patterson party line, Mrs. Barnes says: "We seldom meet. When...
Testifying before the Senate Military Affairs Committee, Under Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson casually disclosed that a new U.S. fighter plane, the P-63, would go into production this year. Mr. Patterson gave no details, the War Department said engineering information on the new ship would be withheld for two weeks. Many flyers had already guessed that the plane might turn out to be a radically improved version of one of the older American fighters...