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...Army engineers bucked the problem to outgoing Army Secretary Frank Pace, who bucked it to Eisenhower's new Army Secretary Robert Ten Broeck, who shuttled it upstairs to Secretary of Defense Charles Wilson, who took it to a Cabinet meeting. Irritated to discover that he was hemmed in by the terms of the Buy American Act, President Eisenhower nonetheless told Wilson to stick by the law. Last week, on a technicality, the Army sent rejection orders to all companies concerned, including the British, and let it be known that it was not yet sure just when it would call...
...rounds of mortar and artillery ammunition a day-nearly ten times the enemy's average daily rate of fire. But such Pentagon efforts to persuade the Senators to look at the silver lining collapsed when Virginia's Harry Byrd put a question to Army Secretary Robert Ten Broeck Stevens...
...Army Secretary-designate Robert Ten Broeck Stevens put up a two-hour fight. Willing to sell other holdings, he argued calmly but insistently that he ought to be allowed to keep his $1,440,000 worth of stock in the textile firm of J. P. Stevens & Co., Inc., which makes millions of dollars' worth of uniform cloth for the armed forces. "... I am steeped in sentiment and tradition with respect to the company that bears my father's name," he said. Requiring him to give up the stock, he contended, would establish "an important principle and precedent," which...
...their problem," i.e., the problem of Dwight Eisenhower and his close advisers. The problem extends below Wilson: three of the men named as his top aides also have stock in companies doing business with the Defense Department. A tougher case than Wilson's is that of Robert Ten Broeck Stevens, a textile manufacturer, who was appointed Secretary of the Army. His firm, J. P. Stevens & Co. of New York City, does a third (about $125 million a year) of its business with the Defense Department, mostly in cloth for uniforms. It is a family firm. If he sold...
...John Peters Stevens Jr., 55, who has been president of J. P. Stevens & Co. since 1942, succeeded Robert Ten Broeck Stevens, his younger brother and Eisenhower's new Army Secretary, as chairman of the family-founded textile company...