Word: patterson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...then there's Colonel Bertie McCormick's Chicago Tribune. The Tribune, like Joe Patterson's sheet, isn't too happy about this Russian alliance. Of course, it has every respect for the noble efforts of the valiant Russian heroes, but, as a recent editorial maintained, we mustn't praise them too much lest--mirabile dictu--the conquered peoples become afraid the Axis is going to be beaten. The Tribune's latest contribution to post-war planning has been the redoubtable McCormick (shades of Ely!) Plan, which proposes an Anglo-American Union that would give the British Empire one-sixth...
Dogged Robert P. Patterson, Under Secretary of War, blew the bugle for battle with this charge: the superduper, overriding priority won by "Bull Bill" Jeffers four months ago to bull through his rubber program had raised unholy hob with the 100-octane gasoline pro gram. Training planes have been grounded in this country, said Mr. Patterson, thus delaying the day when swarms of bombers will finally smash the Axis...
...rubber program has not interfered with a single other pro gram. In fact it has lifted along other programs and has provided additional capacities by uncovering new sources of sup ply. The final answer is that the rubber program is going ahead." Finally he demanded an investigation of Patterson's statement...
Again, Senator Truman. Hardly had Patterson and Ickes finished mortar-firing on Jeffers when the Navy let go a torpedo, too. The condensers, valves and other instruments which Bill Jeffers had snatched from the high-octane program the Navy must also have for its escort program. The Navy also wanted Jeffers stripped of his priority...
...showdown, "Judge" Patterson is confident that he can prove the rubber program out of balance, that civilians are being "coddled" with the promise of tires at the expense of fighting men, that Jeffers has grabbed so many materials the rubber program can now be safely cut back...