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...effect. Before the Senate committee came two lobbyists who had helped prod the House into its brash action: Ed O'Neal, boss of the American Farm Bureau Association, and Albert Goss, Master of the National Grange. They did not go all the way with James G. Patton, boss of the Farmers' Union, who plumped for OPA, but they did think the House had gone a little too far. Ed O'Neal, who often has Congress eating out of his well-manicured hand, now thought a better "middle ground" could be found. The Senate, a little unnerved, began...
Breakfast-Table Briefing. Behind enemy lines on Guadalcanal, McGovern screamed Buddhist curses in Japanese, captured a few Jap prisoners to question. He crossed the Rhine with Patton's men, and later worked on the Potsdam declaration. But his biggest war job was in Washington. He had to get up at 5:30 a.m., to bang out a daily top-secret newspaper on enemy capabilities and intentions-required breakfast reading for President Roosevelt and the Joint Chiefs of Staff...
...February 1943 he arrived in North Africa. There he commanded the II Corps in the Seventh Army of George Patton. In that brutal and bloody campaign, U.S. troops learned how vastly different real war was from Tennessee maneuvers. Then the flamboyant George Patton overshadowed Bradley, but it was the quiet, bespectacled infantryman in the old trench coat who made the jittery divisions into a fighting machine. George Marshall wired him: "All our confidence in you has been justified...
When the U.S. First Army hurdled the Channel and plunged into Normandy, it was Omar Bradley who was in command. The First broke the Germans' human dam at Saint-Lo. Bradley was lifted then to command of the Twelfth Army Group. Once again the spectacular Patton got the headlines and the popular applause, lancing through France with his Third Army tanks. But it was Bradley, scowling over his maps, mixing an occasional whiskey old-fashioned with orange marmalade, plodding through the churned-up battlefields of France, who held the destiny of U.S. soldiers in his steady hands...
...George S. Patton Jr.'s So-year-old brother, Charles F. Ayer, Boston financier and sarsaparilla heir, prepared to marry 40-year-old Miss Anne Phillips, who used to work in his office...