Word: patterson
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Robert P. Patterson '15, Assistant Secretary of War, was elected president of the Law School Alumni Association at their annual meeting June 9. At the same time, Frank W. Grinnell '98 was made secretary, and Reginald H. Smith '14, treasurer...
...course were presented to nine cadets. They will receive their reserve commissions after camp training this summer. Receiving certificates were Arnold M. Anderson, of Duluth, Minn.; William A. Ellison, Jr., of Knoxville, Tenn.; John T. Fey, of Cumberland, Md., Thomas J. Glenn, of Spartanburg, S. C.; Murray Harris, of Patterson, N. J.; Robert Polidor, of Salt Lake City, Ut.; Jack B. Quinn, of Chicago, Ill.; Paul W. Seiler, Jr., of Farmington, Mich.; and Robert M. Wattron, of Berkley, Calif...
Independent engineers agreed that Douglas Dam was needed; so did President Roosevelt, Under Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson, everybody on SPAB. OPM's Bill Batt called the one-man fight against Douglas Dam an "irreparable blow to the national defense program"; McKel- lar's constituents bombarded him with angry letters. Finally he had to give...
...week nominated his own Hall of Fame-"a partial list of fearless Ameri-cans": 1) Colonel Robert R. McCormick, publisher of the Chicago Tribune. 2) Father Charles E. Coughlin, of Royal Oak, Mich. 3) Gerald B. Winrod, anti-Semite, anti-Catholic editor of The Defender, Wichita, Kans. 4) Eleanor Patterson, publisher, Washington Times-Herald. 5) Elizabeth Billing, Chicago Red-baiter. 6) Joseph M. Patterson, publisher, the New York Daily News. 7) Congressman Martin Dies of Texas. 8) William Randolph Hearst. 9) The editors of the Brooklyn Tablet, Coughlin-supporting weekly. 10) Father Edward Lodge Curran, of Brooklyn, also a Coughlin...
...bill was no joke. Said Under Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson: "There are a million tons of rubber on our highways now. That must be conserved. . . . Wasteful use of rubber will soon be a memory. The automobile petting parties will have to go. ... Our situation can become critical if the Sunday trips to see Uncle Joe are continued. I agree . . . that we must hold our tires as a public trust...