Word: patton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chivalry of General George S. Patton lived after him in a tale told by a German slave-laborer. The laborer, who said he had worked as a U.S. counter-intelligence agent after V-E day, claimed he had found Frau Martin Bormann, wife of Hitler's chief deputy, operating a kindergarten in the Austrian Tyrol in 1945. He also found that she was dying of cancer. The agent reported his discovery to Third Army HQ, was told General Patton's decision: "The woman should be allowed to die in peace." She did, a few months later, said...
...blocked all Southern conciliation attempts, had succeeded in starting the War Between the States and then laying the blame on the South. But, sputtered Dr. Tansill, the South should not even now think of its "struggle for freedom" as a "lost cause." "The glorious Confederate flag . . . Belleau Wood . . . Patton's crusaders . . , never be furled...
...thus accept the fact that they hunt each other to the death are not to be expected to bury the hatchet except in each other's necks. Americans who talk coalition with the Communists sound to the Chinese a little like the late General Patton's unhappy comparison of the German Nazi v. anti-Nazi struggle with the rivalry between U.S. Democrats and Republicans...
Formerly housed in the top floor of Lehman Hall, the files and lists were all moved to Widener last January "to make room for more machines in the comptrollers' office," according to Miss Catherine Patton, director of the Alumni office...
...merely keeping up with the wanderings of myriad graduates were not enough, the office is beseiged by a constant stream of telephone calls and mail queries about Alumni, living or dead. "We average more than 30 phone calls a day," stated Miss Patton, who has been in charge of the Office since the fall...