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...Called War & Navy Secretaries Robert Patterson and James Forrestal to the White House, bluntly told them to iron out their merger differences...
...discord cropped up. Most of the Democratic regulars were backing ex-Congressman Will Rogers Jr. for Senator. The rugged radicals of the Hollywood Independent Committee for the Arts, Sciences and Professions, of the C.I.O.-P.A.C. and left-of-center A.F.L. unions were spending and electioneering hard for Congressman Ellis Patterson, who has often shown an agile adherence to the Communist line...
Rogers, privately endorsed by Kenny and publicly supported by "liberal" Author Carey McWilliams, suddenly saw Patterson billboards everywhere he turned. Democratic regulars sniffed a putsch, peeled off their kid gloves...
Colonel Irvin Schindler, leader of a team of 15 "expediters" flown from Washington, had told his crew that General Eisenhower and Secretary Patterson "want this matter cleaned up in a hurry. They want these trials over with and out of the newspapers." The trial had "been getting a lot of bad publicity...
...Justice. Who would it be? Newsmen learned this much: the job would go to a man on the Court. Speculation narrowed to Robert H. Jackson and William 0. Douglas, with a few wiseacres betting on Hugo Black. To fill the vacancy left on the Court, Secretary of War Robert Patterson appeared the likeliest choice. Early this week the President invited venerable Charles Evans Hughes, former Chief Justice, to help him decide...