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These facts were just developing in last week's testimony when?Pop! President Roosevelt called in newshawks, announced that he had appointed Messrs. Baruch, Johnson, Secretaries Hull, Morgenthau, Dern, Wallace, Swanson, Perkins, General Douglas MacArthur, Chief of Staff, Assistant Secretary of the Navy Henry L. Roosevelt, Rail Coordinator Joseph B. Eastman and Foreign Trade Adviser George N. Peek to take the profit out of war. The announcement knocked the Senatorial inquisitors completely out of the spotlight...
...floor below and a side entrance. The stairway was supposed to be a secret exit for Presidential callers who did not want to be stopped and quizzed by the Press in the main lobby. It remained a secret for about two hours. That same afternoon Secretary of War Dern arrived publicly for a conference, departed privately by the stairs. When newshawks failed to see him leave, they investigated, quickly found the secret...
...Madam Secretary Perkins, a braintruster (cap & gown); Mrs. Donald Richberg, "The Mystery of the New Deal'' (an alphabet-spangled dress); Mrs. Henry Wallace, a Yugoslav peasant; Mrs. Daniel Roper, a court lady of the Second Empire; Mrs. Henry Morgenthau Jr., a court lady of the 18th Century; Mrs. George Dern, one of the wives of Brigham Young; Anna Roosevelt Dall, The Devil...
...Philadelphia for the 35th Army-Navy game went such notables as Secretary of War Dern, Chief of Staff Douglas MacArthur, Postmaster General Farley, Maryland's Governor Ritchie, New York's Mayor LaGuardia. Speculators sold tickets for $40 each. In the first quarter, Slade Cutter, Navy's tackle and heavyweight boxing champion, place-kicked a goal from the 20-yd. line. After that, the two teams struggled up & down the muddy field with Fred Borries doing most of Navy's ball-carrying, and a quick-charging Navy line effectively checking Army's Jack Buckler and Joe Stancook. Navy's first victory...
Secretary Dern's order relieved General Benjamin Delahauf ("Benny") Foulois, Chief of Air Corps, from command of practically the entire combat air force, restricting his command in future to personnel training and aircraft procurement. Directly in control of the new combat force will be General Douglas MacArthur, Army Chief of Staff. Actual command of the GHQ Air Force probably will go to Brigadier General Charles H. Danforth of Langley Field, onetime Assistant Chief of Air Corps, who was expected to be upped in rank to major-general...