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That was the Army's case. After the Marines adopted the Garand, Under Secretary of War Robert Porter Patterson declared that the report completely vindicated the Garand. When the report first came out he showed only that portion which called the Garand the best of the semiautomatics. General Charles Macon Wesson, too, talked as though the report proved all that he and his Ordnance Department had claimed for their creation...
...fuss & feathers the first of its three new smokeless powder plants. Standing in the soggy red clay of southwest Virginia (six miles from Radford), 22,000 workmen who had done the job heard praises for their work from such military bigwigs as Under Secretary of War Robert Porter Patterson, Major General Charles Macon Wesson. Earlier, visitors and workmen had strolled through Radford's 4,400 scarred acres, inspected its 639 small and scattered buildings, seen demonstrations of escape chutes (see cut) for quick slides to safety when fire and powder get together. But what pleased everybody most was that...
...addition to being coach of the Freshman swimmers, 39-year-old Peterson is also Varsity diving mentor and is chiefly responsible for Varsity divers Shaw McCutcheon and Brad Patterson, who, before coming under Peterson's tutelage, had never dove in competition. This year, he succeeded in converting Freshman swimming Captain John D. Eusden from a mere beginner into a swimmer who has reportedly done 54.6 for the 100-yard free style...
...taking place around New York City, to which FCC has allotted eleven channels. With seven of these already assigned to stations, FCC has received ten applications for the other four spots. Among those that would like to take over a place on the FM band are Joseph Medill Patterson's News, Musak, The Yankee Network, and an outfit called FM Radio Broadcasting Co., headed by Investment Banker Charles E. Merrill. Hotfooting after Banker Merrill, et al., are stations ranging from the 1,000-watt WHOM to municipal station WNYC. Although the battle may be warm, big shots like Messrs...
...rapidly disowned him for supporting the Lend-Lease Bill. Then, so successfully did he plug isolation that in no time he was ranked among the top half-dozen chief U. S. "appeasers." Not even the Hearst chain, Robert Rutherford McCormick's Chicago Tribune or Joseph Medill Patterson's New York News outdid Roy Howard's isolationist tour de force: a screaming "exposé" purporting to show that the Army had already ordered 4,500,000 identification tags for America's war corpses to come...