Word: plattsburg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...laude graduate), earned part of his way by waiting on tables for meals, tutoring during vacation, won a letter in tennis. The war in Europe invaded the Amherst campus in 1916. Jack McCloy plumped for "preparedness" as against "pacifism." He spent the summer after graduation training at Plattsburg. The U.S. was in the war as he finished his first year at Harvard Law. He hurried to Plattsburg again...
Charles W. Chastain, 3rd, Plattsburg. Charles F. McCoy, Kansas City. Paul Luther Maier, Clayton. Glen McF. Tucker, St. Louis...
...Champlain College, at the Army's Plattsburg barracks; Sampson College, at the Navy's Sampson training station; Mohawk College, at Utica's Rhoads (Army) hospital...
...Secretary Patterson won the D.S.C. as a company commander in the 77th (Statue of Liberty) Division in World War I, came home to the law. In 1940 he took time off from the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals bench in Manhattan, went to Plattsburg to retrain for the new war he saw coming. One afternoon, while emptying garbage cans with a KP detail, he got his summons from Stimson...
...Republican swath cut deep, down to the grass roots. Outstanding and almost sole noncasualty: Cleveland's popular Democratic Mayor Frank J. Lausche. Hartford, Conn. (pop. 166,267) threw out its Democratic mayor after eight years. Plattsburg, N.Y. (pop. 16,351), a tiny Democratic island in the vast upstate New York G.O.P. sea, got its first Republican mayor in 14 years. And the G.O.P. picked up the only two Congressional by-elections, in Pennsylvania and New York...