Word: dern
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great collection of more fortunate and more distinguished travelers had been pouring into Manila for days to be on hand for an historic happening. Chief among the visitors was George Henry Dern of Salt Lake City, Utah. As Secretary of War, he was head of the Bureau of Insular Affairs, which had supervised Philippine affairs during the 37 years they had been under U. S. dominion. Now George Dern was in Manila to read a proclamation which Franklin Delano Roosevelt had just signed on the other side of the world in Washington. The proclamation briefly certified the election on Sept...
CONGRATULATIONS ON A FINE SEASON STOP DONT STOPBUT STOP YALE STOP HARVARD SHOULD GARNER THE VICTORY TOMORROW MORGENTHAU THEY SAY THE HULL DERN ELI TEAM IS TOUGH STOP REGARDS...
Secretary of War Dern and Secretary of the Navy Swanson: The Administration policy was for a strong Navy. ... It was for a sensible Army, too. . . . The President was as good a naval officer as any admiral and he, personally-more than Secretary Swanson-did the Navy job. The Army did not lie so close to his training and tradition and an opportunity was lost-because Secretary Dern was too complacent in fighting Mr. Ickes for a share of Public Works. . . . Those hundreds of millions-which must be spent some day-all were set aside for Mr. Ickes not to spend...
Also outside the U. S. last week was the third ranking member of the Cabinet, Secretary of War George Henry Dern (see above). In a high and exclusive mood he had chosen to attend the Quezon inaugural in Manila, not as a member of Vice President Garner's democratic party aboard an ordinary merchantman but as the solitary official passenger aboard the U. S. cruiser Chester. On his own, he was having the time of his life in Tokyo...
...received by the Son of Heaven, lunched sumptuously with the America-Japan Society, was received by the Japanese War Ministry, War Council and War Office at a fete declared to have been "the most impressive military assemblage seen at a Tokyo social function in years." Throughout it all Mr. Dern created what U. S. correspondents called "an excellent impression" with his "informal but noncommittal eloquence...