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...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...
Capt. Merriam enlisted in the Mass. National Guard in 1915, was commissioned a 2nd Lt. in the infantry O.R.C. May 15, 1917, attending the first Plattsburg officers' camp from May 15 to August 15, 1917, and was then commissioned as a captain of infantry. He served at Fort Devens for the duration of the war with the rank of Captain...
Clark, a graduate of the Harvard Law School, was a founder of the Plattsburg training camps in the First World War, and was one of the leaders of the Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies before the United States enforced this war. After studying similar acts in Britain, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, Clark urged that such a law was needed for "moral reasons," as well as for practical necessity...