Word: dern
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last December Representative Blanton of Texas wrote Secretary of War Dern asking to have Generals Brown, Drum, Malone and Hagood testify before a House Appropriations subcommittee, and requesting that they be not restrained by the War Department from making full and frank answers. General Malin Craig, Chief of Staff, replied that the officers named "will be instructed by me in person that they are to answer you freely, fully and frankly...
...terrific slap for an officer of his rank. What happened in those 14 days kept Washington guessing last week. New Dealers, doubly sensitive in a campaign year to such catch phrases as "stage money," were incensed at General Hagood. Harry Hopkins was supposed to have protested violently to Secretary Dern that the Army should not allow such an attack on his WPA. The War Department undoubtedly felt that General Hagood had been talking out of turn too long. Republican Senator Metcalf hung full responsibility for the Hagood ouster on President Roosevelt by declaring on the floor of the Senate...
...maidenhood despite an attempted outrage, was martyred by decapitation at the age of 12. Youngest child saint of all. little St. Hugh of Lincoln was crucified, supposedly by Jews, in 1255 at the age of 9. In Jesuit America last week a Benedictine named Bonaventure Schwinn produced a mo,dern "Who's Who of Child Candidates for Beatification...
...Presidential secretary entered, put a slip of paper in the President's hands. It was a newsflash: the U. S. Supreme Court had just declared AAA unconstitutional, lock, stock & barrel (see p. 12). How President Roosevelt received this staggering piece of information was afterwards described by Secretary Dern...
...President. Most of the 15,000 official guests on hand to watch President Quezon swear his oath were influential brown-skinned fellow-countrymen in white suits and straw hats. But the guests whom President Quezon was happiest to see were the white-skinned envoys of the liberating Republic: Secretary Dern, Vice President John Nance Garner, 17 U. S. Senators, 26 U. S. Representatives, 34 U. S. newspapermen, to the last of whom Manuel Quezon declared: "We will be ever grateful for the part the free press has played in the cause of independence...