Word: plattsburg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with the stern sense of duty of his Yankee forebears. President Roosevelt promoted him to the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals in 1939. Prior to World War II Judge Patterson fought the unpopular fight for a military-conscription law, and personally enrolled in an officers' refresher course at Plattsburg, N.Y. There he was emptying garbage cans on a K.P. detail in the summer of 1940 when he heard that Roosevelt wanted him in Washington...
...Among its more important campuses: the four-year Champlain College at Plattsburg, the College of Medicine at Syracuse, the College of Medicine at New York City, the Maritime College at Fort Schuyler. *The largest: Manhattan's privately supported New York University (no kin to SUNY), with a total enrollment...
...Mantle. But he was always ready to serve. William Howard Taft, the second of six Presidents who called upon him, in 1911 made him Secretary of War. Then came Wilson and World War I. Out of office, Henry Stimson at 49 decided to become a soldier himself, trained at Plattsburg (which he had helped set up), went overseas as an artillery lieutenant colonel to command a battalion on the Western Front and win a promotion to full colonel...