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After seven years in the War Department, the last 22 months as efficient, plodding, meticulous Secretary of War, Robert P. Patterson last week handed in his resignation. Ever since the war ended, he had wanted to return to his private law practice in Manhattan. He nursed the hope that he might be appointed to fill the next Supreme Court vacancy. His cue to resign, said Bob Patterson, was Congress' all-but-final action last week on the merger bill which he had helped put through. The bill, passed by the House, went to a Senate-House conference this week...
...does not soon transfer surplus arms to Latin American governments, warned War Secretary Robert Patterson last week, they will seek arms and training "elsewhere." The Secretary did not say where. But Argentina had already ordered jet fighters from Britain, and Russia had large stocks of German tanks and planes to spare...
Secretary Patterson was testifying in Washington on behalf of the so-called Truman plan to standardize hemisphere arms out of U.S. arsenals. The U.S. Army & Navy had marshaled their biggest brass to get the bill passed before the Rio conference opens, presumably next month...
Died. Colonel John Henry Patterson, 79, zealous, Irish-born Protestant who became a Zionist leader; in Los Angeles. Famed as soldier and big-game hunter, Colonel Patterson commanded the British Army's World War I Jewish Legion, enjoyed the esteem of Fellow Hunter Teddy Roosevelt...
...days, found nothing much to argue about. But by convention's end, some solemn business demanded attention after all. One grim reminder was a pair of radioactive goats (survivors of Bikini) munching hay in the exhibition hall. Another was an appeal by Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson for the doctors' support of a bill to remedy a serious shortage of Army doctors. The Army has only 1,100 Regulars in its Medical Corps, needs 6,000 for its present strength of some 1,000,000 men. The bill would raise medical officers' pay, let the Army...