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...military supplies. Last week A. O. A. members, who know too much to be fooled, heard a progress report on U. S. preparedness from Defense Commissioner William S. Knudsen; from the Army's Chief of Ordnance, Major General Charles M. Wesson; from Assistant Secretary of War Robert Porter Patterson...
Those summoned are Attorney General Robert H. Jackson, Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox, Assistant Secretary of War Robert Patterson, and Sidney Hillman, the Defense Commission's labor coordinator and C. I. O. Vice-President...
Professor Sidney Post Simpson of the Law School was appointed aide to Robert P. Patterson, while Law School Professors advised the Department of Justice on special problems connected with the Alien Registration Law. Now working with the Evaluation Committee of the National Research Council is Professor Harlow Shapley, director of the College Observatory...
That Franklin Roosevelt or any other President would wish or have to use such power to the full appeared unlikely. Its mere existence serves the purpose: to scare a recalcitrant few. Assistant Secretary of War Robert Porter Patterson assured industry that the power would be applied to only "one case in a thousand." But he left no doubt that the Roosevelt Administration was prepared to crack down on the thousandth...
This week another of Joseph Medill's dynasty, brown-eyed, athletic, 30-year-old Alicia Patterson, the Captain's daughter, became a publisher. Wife (since July 1939) of onetime U. S. Ambassador to Cuba Harry Frank Guggenheim, Alicia has like him been a flying enthusiast, been married thrice. (Husband I was the late James Simpson Jr., son of Marshall Field & Co.'s onetime chairman; Husband II was Broker Joseph W. Brooks.) Her newly founded paper: an evening tabloid, Newsday, a "country newspaper" for rich, suburban Nassau County...