Word: patterson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...these facts, Mitchel Field's airmen were hard put to it to explain Mrs. Kramer's indictment. Some saw a glimmer of significance in the fact that the letter was printed as an exclusive story by Newsday, a bumptious local daily. Editor of Newsday is Alicia Patterson (Mrs. Harry Guggenheim) daughter of Captain Joseph Patterson, isolationist owner of the great New York Daily News...
Only threat to Bertie McCormick's title as No. 1 isolationist publisher of the U.S. was that his cousin Joe Patterson (New York Daily News) threatened to out-McCormick him. Pulling out all the isolationist stops, Cousin Joe and News Chief Editorialist Reuben Maury (who also writes editorials for interventionist Collier's) vied with the Tribune's bitterest, Anglophobe, Roosevelt-hating, gallows-dancing, isolationist editorials, cartoons and news. One News editorial played variations on the theme: "[The Administration] is accused of keeping the war scare pumped up to frightful proportions in order that it may quietly...
Administrator. Henry Stimson has during his year in office himself picked the three men who are his chief civilian aides. One of them is earnest Robert Porter Patterson, onetime overseas infantry officer and D.S.C.-man, who left the Federal appellate bench to become Under Secretary, the Secretary's right-hand man, who also handles Army buying. Another is Robert Abercrombie Lovett, wartime naval aviator, Assistant Secretary of War for Air who watches out for The Air Forces. The third is John Jay McCloy, Manhattan lawyer and A.E.F. artillery captain, who supervises Lend-Lease, Army publicity, personnel and many...
...longer in Washington, or anywhere anybody could find them, were Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles, Chief of Staff General George C. Marshall, Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Harold R. Stark, Chief of The Air Forces' Major General Henry H. Arnold, Assistant Secretary of War Robert Porter Patterson. No longer at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, said luncheon-table gossip in New York, was the Navy's new battleship, North Carolina...
Near Cardington, Ohio, a British Lockheed bomber cracked up and burned. Two young U.S. Army Air Forces lieutenants died in her blackened hulk. Few miles away, on the Army's Patterson Field, another Lockheed, with the red-white-&-blue cockade of the R.A.F. on her camouflaged sides, ground-looped on a take-off and burned as her pilots skipped out of danger. At Brooklyn's Floyd Bennett Field four Douglas DB75 whisked in from the west in formation, were landed by their khaki-clad pilots as nice as you please...