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...Under Secretary of War and boss of the Army's $100 billion procurement program, Republican Patterson urged a sweeping draft of civilian manpower, wanted to bar millions of automobiles from the highways to save rubber and gasoline. His explosion over the sight of valuable trucks delivering soft drinks in Washington was so noisy and prolonged that it got to be known as "The Battle of Seven-Up." He was bullheaded, and his violent temper became a capital legend; but he produced. In 1945 President Truman made him Secretary of War, succeeding Henry L. Stimson...
Brass Knuckles. For two tempestuous years, close-cropped Bob Patterson was a central figure in the postwar upheaval in Pentagonia. His behind-the-scenes battle with Navy Secretary James V. Forrestal on unification of the armed forces was a brass-knuckled epic; Patterson wanted a total merger, with all services under a "Generalissimo." He raised a vigorous, though lonely, cry against disarmament in, 1946, helped generate the idea of the North Atlantic Treaty...
...Patterson returned to his New York law practice and his 70-acre farm at Cold Spring, N.Y., but he kept fighting. He became a leader of the Atlantic Union movement, headed a commission on organized crime for the American Bar Association, railed against abuses of individual rights by congressional committees...
...went to Buffalo last week to wind up a client's antitrust action. The hearing was shorter than he expected. Lawyer Patterson canceled an afternoon train reservation, boarded the doomed Convair...
...girls' high school, one wing sliced into a three-story brick building and spun the plane into a two-family frame house. Blazing gas spewed over the neighborhood. Choking black smoke billowed up to thicken the fog. All 23 passengers, including former Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson, and crew members were killed. In the muck and charred ruins, Elizabeth (pop. 112,675) counted six of its own among the dead...