Word: pattonism
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...Asheville, N.C., Federal Judge J. Braxton Craven pondered the remarkable fact that one Eddie Patton, by establishing that he had been unconstitutionally imprisoned, had won a new trial at which he lost even more of his liberty...
...Patton's ironic encounter with justice began in 1960 when he was arrested for armed robbery. Lacking bond, he stayed in jail until his trial at which, without counsel, he was found guilty and sentenced to 20 years in the state penitentiary. Three years later, when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Gideon v. Wainwright that every defendant, even if indigent, is entitled to counsel, Patton was one of the many prisoners in U.S. jails to apply for a post-conviction hearing...
...lost cause. Lee and Stonewall Jackson outrank Ulysses S. Grant. World War I produced no military heroes unless it was Sergeant York, a man of peace reacting to pressure. World War II and after showed a growing sophistication in American taste in war heroes. The dashing George Patton was ranked well behind the judicious men of wide responsibility such as Eisenhower, Bradley, Marshall...
...THOMAS F. PATTON, chairman of Cleveland's Republic Steel: "A tax increase at this time may prove to be not only unnecessary but also injurious to continuous sound growth. The nation has not yet had sufficient time to feel the full deflationary effects of the increased rates on borrowing, high social security taxes, the upward adjustment in the schedules for tax withholdings and the renewal of certain excise taxes...
...love, so in war. The American reputation for wanting quick victories is deserved, from John Paul Jones ("boldness, not caution, wins") to Sherman and Patton. Yet in every war they have fought, Americans have also shown great patience, which of course is a form of courage. For all their dash, U.S. generals appreciate slow, painstaking preparation and careful strategy in the tradition of Quintus Fabius Maximus Cunctator ("The Delayer"). After Pearl Harbor, when Admiral Chester Nimitz was rebuilding the US. Navy, he invariably fended off action-hungry critics with the Hawaiian phrase Hoomana wa nui (Be patient...