Word: patton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Members of Washington's Little Congress (secretaries of Senators and Representatives) assembled near the Capitol to watch curly-headed Senator Tom Connolly of Texas crown bonnie Bonnie Patton, 21-year-old daughter of Texas Congressman Nat Patton and receptionist at the Congressional ladies' cloakroom, as this year's "Miss Capitol Hill." Then, 150 strong, they sped to Manhattan on their eighth annual Easter outing, called duly upon Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, whom they found in a reminiscent mood. Sighed he, harking back to his Congressional days: "I once had a good secretary down there, too. But I lost...
...Major General George S. Patton Jr., 55, commander of the Second Armored Division at Fort Benning. His rank kept him remote from the men of Company D, 68th Armored Regiment (Light). Yet, to all of them, The Old Man was as near and real as the pine bark on the outer walls of their makeshift mess hall. Like God (they said) he had the damndest way of showing up when things went wrong. Unlike God, he had been known to dash leglong into a creek, get a stalled tank and its wretched crew out of the water and back into...
...whole division. General Patton had ordered his 10,000 men and officers, his 1,200 vehicles (tanks, scout cars, trucks, motorcycles, etc.) to put on the division's first full review since the Second was created last July. Purpose: to see how men, officers, materiel showed up in a big maneuver. For Company D and its tall, popular commander, Major Leo F. Kengla Jr., the day was more than big: it seemed to mark the end of the old Company...
...Hero, Vt.; William R. Murphey, 3d. '41, Philadelphia, Pa.; Philip Nogee '41, WilkesBarre, Pa.; Albert J. Novak '41, Washington D. C.; James R. Nygren '42, Detroit Lakes, Minn.; John A. Ordway, 2d. '42, Franklin, N. H.; Robert Paine '42, Memphis, Tenn.; Harold C. Passer '43, Faribault, Minn.; Donald J. Patton '42, Cortaro, Ariz.; Dick S. Payne '43, Council Bluffs, Ia.; Daniel M. Pearce '42, Ripley, Tenn.; Jack M. Peterson '42, Portland, Ore.; Alan W. Petit '41, Berkeley, Calif.; Chris G. Petrow '41, Webster City, Ia.; Norman H. Pike '42, Sioux City...