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...bedside went Dr. Henry Stewart Patterson, a first-rate New York heart specialist; Morgan's two daughters, Mrs. Paul G. Pennoyer and Mrs. George Nichols; his younger son, Lieut. Commander Henry Sturgis Morgan, 42. His elder son, Junius Spencer Morgan, 51, was out of the country on active naval duty, as he had been in 1917-18. Seventy-five-year-old John Pierpont Morgan died at 3:15 in the morning of March...
Around Captain Eddie Rickenbacker swirled a storm of protest for his stern denunciations of absenteeism in war plants and general U.S. flabbiness. Union leaders howled bitter reproaches, called him misinformed, reactionary. Under Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson announced that the World War I ace spoke "as an individual and not as an Army officer." The sober Republican New York Herald Tribune allowed: "It does seem true that the World War ace lacks information on some of the obstacles to the all-out production effort he insists upon...
Next day, everybody was talking at once. Parts of the old Isolationist press were delighted. Said Eleanor ("Cissy") Patterson's Washington Times Herald, on page 1: "Clare Boothe Luce, long considered one of our most ardent internationalists, yesterday came home to roost." Delighted also was the stoutly international, Anglophile New York Herald Tribune, which saw in the speech no Isolationist overtones...
...joint session of House Military and Naval Affairs subcommittees, blunt Bill Jeffers roared again that Army & Navy factory expediters were "loafers" who made off with materials he could have used better. An audience of top military men looked on in angry silence. Under Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson and Under Secretary of the Navy James V. Forrestal roared back at the Czar...
Fight v. Order. The Army's Patterson learned how to be dogged as well as judicious while he was on the Federal bench. As Under Secretary of War, he does his job as he sees it, without fear of bruises or cuts. The Navy's Forrestal is as calm, soft-spoken and neat as any other onetime investment banker-but he also knows how to fight for what he thinks is right. And rubber's Jeffers, a tough customer who came up from section hand to railroad president, will take his coat off at the slightest provocation...