Word: porters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spectacles far down on his nose, pug-faced Under Secretary of War Robert Porter Patterson sat before the Senate Defense Investigating Committee. The Under Secretary was reporting what the War Department had done in national defense during the last twelve months-the score of the first period in a deadly serious game...
Last week, with a foresight rare in U.S. military history, the army prepared to apply the awful test of war to U.S. officers before they actually go to battle. Said Under Secretary of War Robert Porter Patterson (in a letter to House Speaker Sam Rayburn): "It is imperative that during the emergency the Secretary of War have authority to vitalize the active list of the Army, removing therefrom those officers who are unable to stand up under the strain to which they must be subjected if we are to build up a modern Army capable of meeting the demands...
Under Secretary of War Robert Porter Patterson heard the rumbles, sent a letter to a Senate committee opposing any change. So did Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox. In fact, the Navy reacted much more strongly than the Army...
...months since Under Secretary Robert Porter Patterson summoned him to the War Department, youngish (45) Mr. Lovett has done a standout...
Feeling low, Osgood Nichols, one of the Board's statisticians, wandered into the Social Security Board Building's emergency room. The nurse took one look at him, gave him a sedative and put him to bed. Frank Porter Graham, University of North Carolina president, interrupted by the telephone in the midst of conference with fellow Member Walter Clark Teagle of Standard Oil, blinked at Mr. Teagle with heavy, black-circled eyes as he hung up the receiver. Mr. Teagle was sound asleep on a sofa...