Word: patterson
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Eberstadt went to Washington last January at the behest of two old friends, Under Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal and Under Secretary of War Robert Patterson. Working with Forrestal and Patterson on the Munitions Board, he has tried to use the same straight-line tactics that Bernard M. Baruch applied to World War I, has sided with the Army in its arguments with WPB but has always believed that the right men could make WPB work. Now he will get his chance to prove...
...M.G.M.) is an all-out Hollywood jihad to save Fay Bainter's soul for the New Deal. Cinemactress Bainter impersonates the widow of an anti-New Deal Washington newspaper publisher. She has vague resemblances to the Washington Times-Herald's Cissie Patterson, an overstuffed mansion, an illusory heart ailment, a raffish son (Richard Ney), a musical-comedy daughter (Jean Rogers) and. though the epithet is never directly hurled, there is more than a hint that the Widow Bainter is a Republican. The war against her is waged with practically everything but brass knuckles and a commando raid...
...rush to arms of aircraft workers (TIME, Sept. 7) last week got too heavy even for the War Department. Said Under Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson: "The War Department is gravely concerned. . . . The Army will not offer commissions to men who . . . can make greater contributions to the war effort by remaining in their present vital war work."* He added that no more men in 2-A, 2-B and 3-B would be accepted for enlistment without draft board permission...
...last Franklin Roosevelt saved his quip of the day, the question of John J. Bennett's nomination in New York. The Chief picked up a newspaper, read therefrom Columnist Mark Sullivan's remarks about a press conference with Under Secretary of War Bob Patterson: "Mr. Patterson said merely that he had no worthwhile comment. If Mr. Patterson has no copyright on those four short words, 'no worth-while comment,' they could be advantageously used by some other Washington officials who face press conferences...
...three of the six finalists were Crimson runners, but one of the best dash men on the squad, Frank Coolidge, could only pull in a third behind Sid Stayman of Worcester Tech, and Sandy Patterson. Following Coolidge were Wes Flint and Moe Young. Even the winner's time in this event was slow, 10.2 seconds, due probably to the soft track...