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...military establishment up to what he considered minimum requirements. Just as success seemed about to come to him, his four-year tour of duty, fixed by law, ran out last November. By an unprecedented executive order, President Roosevelt continued General MacArthur in office indefinitely to help Secretary of War Dern press the Army's "modernization" plans before Congress...
...when Mrs. Brandeis and Mrs. Butler took seats in the Courtroom. The wives of other Justices followed. But the Administration had already guessed that the decision was to come: Secretaries Morgenthau and Hull had a 1 o'clock luncheon appointment at the White House; Mrs. Morgenthau and Mrs. Dern were in the Court before any of the Justices' wives...
Engaged. William Brown Dern, 27 RFC employe, second son of the Secretary of War; and Helen M. McCollam, 25 secretary to an RFC section chief, daughter of an unemployed Washington bricklayer; in Washington...
Prime recommendation of the Baker Board last summer was immediate organization of an independent General Headquarters Air Force composed of all Army Air Corps tactical units under a separate commander. Last autumn Secretary of War Dern announced that the recommendation would be followed. Last week he put the plan into effect by removing control of the country's air forces from the commanding generals of nine corps areas and placing it under the personal control of Chief of Staff Douglas MacArthur. Completely relieved of authority except for personnel training and aircraft procurement was Major General Benjamin D. ("Benny") Foulois...
...handsome, dashing General MacArthur's four-year tour of duty as No. 1 Soldier of the U. S. was due to expire. No successor was named. Instead, an unprecedented order from the White House continued him in office another 30 days. Secretary of War Dern sorely needed General MacArthur to push military legislation in the coming Congress, to continue his army modernization plans. Despite a law which specifies four years of service for the General Staff Corps, Secretary Dern wanted the President to reappoint General MacArthur for another four years. Seldom bound by legal convention, and apparently without...