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...North Carolina-Virginia epidemic of infantile paralysis last week threatened to stir up an epidemic of hysteria. Dr. Martha Edith MacBride-Dexter, Pennsylvania's Secretary of Health, persuaded Governor Earle to persuade Secretary of War Dern to forbid the mobilization of Virginia and District of Columbia National Guardsmen for summer maneuvers in Pennsylvania. Virginia and District of Columbia troops therefore played war in their own backyards...
Last week the War Department completed its investigation of General Foulois. Instead of removing the Chief of Air Corps as the House Military Affairs subcommittee wanted, Secretary of War Dern let him off with a reprimand to the effect that he "did depart from the ethics and standards of the service by making exaggerated, unfair and misleading statements to a Congressional committee...
Last week Secretary of War Dern went to Philadelphia to help celebrate the 17th anniversary of the establishment of that city's Ordnance Department, view an exhibit of armament in Reyburn Plaza opposite the City Hall. By the time the Secretary's visit was over he had been made thoroughly conscious of militant pacifism as practiced by Philadelphia Quakers. When he arrived at the Bellevue Stratford Hotel to speak at a dinner, he found young Quakers picketing the street, bearing placards such as: WAR IS ALWAYS WRONG and ARMAMENTS REPRESENT DEATH TO YOU BUT DIVIDENDS TO THE PRIVATE...
Last week six beige-colored gentlemen assembled in the White House offices to see a more important endorsement put upon their Constitution. President Roosevelt, with Secretary of War Dern at his right and Manuel Quezon (probably first President of the Philippine Commonwealth) at his left, squiggled his name in ordinary ink to a document certifying that the Constitution complies with U. S. demands...
...government department is not run by its politically-appointed Secretary, it is the War Department. George Henry Dern, good Democrat and Utah's onetime Governor, sits in the Secretary's office on the "War side" of the old State, War & Navy rookery on Pennsylvania Avenue. Onetime Secretary of War Jefferson Davis' clock ticks on the mantel behind him. Overhead in a case is the flag which draped Abraham Lincoln's coffin. In an anteroom is a comfortable couch where Secretary Dern refreshes himself with an occasional nap. In an office nearby sits John W. Martyn...