Word: patterson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...joint session of House Military and Naval Affairs subcommittees, blunt Bill Jeffers roared again that Army & Navy factory expediters were "loafers" who made off with materials he could have used better. An audience of top military men looked on in angry silence. Under Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson and Under Secretary of the Navy James V. Forrestal roared back at the Czar...
Fight v. Order. The Army's Patterson learned how to be dogged as well as judicious while he was on the Federal bench. As Under Secretary of War, he does his job as he sees it, without fear of bruises or cuts. The Navy's Forrestal is as calm, soft-spoken and neat as any other onetime investment banker-but he also knows how to fight for what he thinks is right. And rubber's Jeffers, a tough customer who came up from section hand to railroad president, will take his coat off at the slightest provocation...
...Jeffers explained: a loafer, in railroad vernacular, is "a person assigned to an unnecessary job." In that category he put "socalled inspectors and expediters" who were trying to "take over production and tell managers how to do their jobs." Answer came from another witness, Under Secretary of War Robert Patterson: Army and Navy representatives were "indispensable" breakers of bottlenecks in war plants; "Mr. Jeffers himself has a corps of expediters in his rubber program...
...side of the case had already been well stated by Chief of Staff General George Catlett Marshall, who says the quotas were drawn up with all problems, including shipping, firmly in mind (TIME, Dec. 21). Two more rebuttal points were presented by Under Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson: 1) "It is ... essential to obtain superiority . . . the Axis powers and their satellites have under arms 569 divisions. This is considerably more than we and our British and Russian allies have." 2) "We are training men in 1943 to fight in 1944. Our training program must contemplate a long...
Consensus of the 14 newspaper, magazine and radio men present was much the same For three days they had watched the Army display its might on a lids-off tour arranged by Under Secretary Robert P. Patterson. Purpose: to give the U.S. a glimpse of how its war tax dollars are being spent, to inspire confidence in the foresight and energy of the men directing the war's technical side...