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...Illinois, Colonel Patterson's cousin, multimillionaire Isolationist Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick, simultaneously conducted a poll in his Chicago Tribune on the same question. Of 257,484 post cards mailed to every tenth voter, 77,229 (30%) answered: Yes (for war), 14,176, or 18.36%; No (against war), 62,394, or 80.79%. These figures checked almost exactly with Dr. Gallup's month-by-month poll of Illinois sentiment. Obvious conclusion: Colonel McCormick would have saved thousands of dollars by reading Dr. Gallup's polls, which regularly appear in the rival Chicago Daily News...
...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...
...Patterson's report sounded like a tremendous accomplishment. To a nation loath to drop its peacetime preoccupations with permanent-wave machines and shiny new automobiles for the grim business of arming for war, it was a tremendous accomplishment. But it was not enough. No one knew that better than Under Secretary Patterson. Said...
Like other Army men, Bob Patterson dated the U.S.'s big defense effort from June 1940, when the fall of France showed a bemused world the awful might of Nazi arms. Until then the U.S. had made piddling increases in its standing army. While the Germans hacked their way toward Paris, Congress authorized an Army strength of 280,000 (from 227,000) made possible the organization of the Army's first armored division. Congress also set its sights (too low) on a program of training 7,000 military pilots a year. Two months more, passed before Congress...
...pinch caught the U.S. with virtually no munitions industry except a few Army arsenals. ("We were proud of our lack of militarism," said Bob Patterson.) As of last week the Army Ordnance Department had built or under way 21 plants for powder, TNT, etc., was already getting some production...