Word: patterson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said onetime isolationist Editor Joseph Medill Patterson's New York Daily News: "That Colonel's cry . . . should shame and humble every American on the home front. . . . Too much has been said, too many tears shed about the loss of a few ships and some scores of planes at Pearl Harbor. . . . Too little has been said about the much worse blunder of failing a year ago to convert automotive and other peace industries to defense production. By that failure we have lost a thousand planes and tanks and ships for every one lost at Pearl Harbor...
...essential that our procurement be put into the highest gear at once . . . employes must make their maximum effort regardless of the long hours of hardship endured . . . production must be put on a 24-hour-a-day basis.-Under Secretary of War Robert Patterson...
Died. Benjamin Patterson Bole, 68, publisher of the Cleveland Plain Dealer; of a heart attack; in Cleveland...
Tonight Robert P. Patterson, Under-Secretary of War, will speak at a banquet at the Copley-Plaza on "The Defense of America." Later in the evening he will discuss defense strikes with Mr. Oliver over the NBC Red Network...
...backstroke event, with Drucker as the nucleus, is well represented, as is the free style, if Curwen and teammates John Eusden, Tiny Gorman and Tom Shrewsbury live up to expectations. The diving event event is also strong in the persons of Brad Patterson and his roommate, Shaw McCutcheon, who was another one to qualify for last year's Eastern Intercollegiate...