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...died and a chapter ended last week in U.S. political history. When Roosevelt II marched into power in 1933, marching with him came Tammany politicians, social planners, men of labor, liberals and the conservatives of the old South. Byron Patton Harrison was symbolic of that last, anomalous group...
...superior force it had faced. And it had done its job in a hurry, operating under a well-conceived plan. During the night some of its units had traveled better than 100 miles, blacked out. It had followed the precept of its able, profane commander, Major General George S. Patton Jr.: "Hold the enemy by the nose and kick him in the rump until he falls down" (an expurgated version...
...trying to bull its way through trouble, the Second had violated another Pattonism. Meeting abler anti-tank tactics from the 27th and 30th than it had expected, it had lost many tanks. D.S.C.Man Patton had warned them of the danger of 75s along the roadside. Said he (amended version): "Never engage in a scenting match with a skunk." The Second, relying on its own strength, had failed to use its infantry, and the failure had been expensive. It had also failed to coordinate its work with its allied Fifth Division, and been cited by the umpires for the failure...
...read this aloud to my old friend, E. E. Patton, the great scholar and educator, in his office at Knoxville, Tenn. This was his reply from memory...
Members of Washington's Little Congress (secretaries of Senators and Representatives) assembled near the Capitol to watch curly-headed Senator Tom Connolly of Texas crown bonnie Bonnie Patton, 21-year-old daughter of Texas Congressman Nat Patton and receptionist at the Congressional ladies' cloakroom, as this year's "Miss Capitol Hill." Then, 150 strong, they sped to Manhattan on their eighth annual Easter outing, called duly upon Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, whom they found in a reminiscent mood. Sighed he, harking back to his Congressional days: "I once had a good secretary down there, too. But I lost...