After seven years in the War Department, the last 22 months as efficient, plodding, meticulous Secretary of War, Robert P. Patterson last week handed in his resignation. Ever since the war ended, he had wanted to return to his private law practice in Manhattan. He nursed the hope that he might be appointed to fill the next Supreme Court vacancy. His cue to resign, said Bob Patterson, was Congress' all-but-final action last week on the merger bill which he had helped put through. The bill, passed by the House, went to a...
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