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Rediscovered by Secretary Robert Patterson, who had been Stimson's Under Secretary, Royall was marked by Washington gossips for the top War Department job when solemn Bob Patterson retires. The man from North Carolina, who was once one of the state's best trial lawyers, was not excited. His ambition: "I'd kind of like to go back to my home town...
When she minced into Pearl Harbor, just in time to see war break over Hawaii, the destroyer Patterson was only four years old and one of the best. A survivor of Dec. 7's disaster, she became one of the thin line of U.S. warships left to stop the Jap fleet in the Pacific. Lean as an alley cat, "Pat" stalked off to westward...
...room had been fitted out with blackboard and chalk. Mrs. Truman still wanted to learn the language of Good Neighborliness. Among other scholars who will gather at the White House at 11 every Monday morning: Mrs. Dwight Eisenhower, Miss Florence King (daughter of Fleet Admiral Ernest), Mrs. Robert Patterson, Mrs. James F. Byrnes...
...Like Patterson, Marshall was careful to emphasize that the War Department was proposing a merger of equals; there was no suggestion that the Navy should be swallowed by the Army. They also insisted that the air forces (except liaison and scouting craft) should become the third, co-equal branch...
...shining white Chicago store. He opened a door, smiled broadly, and walked in with outstretched hand. Sewell Lee Avery beamed back, rose to shake hands. Said General David McCoach Jr. to the chairman of the board of Montgomery Ward & Co.: on the order of Secretary of War Patterson, the Army was turning the property back to its owners...