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Merry-Go-Round: General Douglas MacArthur, dapper Chief of Staff . . . is the real boss of the War Department today. Although it went out over Secretary Dern's signature, MacArthur was the real author of the Army's $115,000,000 Public Works program calling for ammunition and ordnance purchases. General: Meaning . . . that plaintiff was dictatorial and guilty of insubordination and disrespect to a superior officer, the Secretary...
Secretary of War George H. Dern today announced Baker's acceptance of chairmanship of the board on which Col. Charles A. Lindbergh refused to serve because he disapproved the cancellation of private air mail contracts...
...Charles Augustus Lindbergh by the White House had done President Roosevelt no popular good. Millions of citizens insisted on viewing the differences between these national heroes as something of a personal encounter. By last week the situation plainly called; for diplomacy. As a peace offering Secretary of War Dern asked Col. Lindbergh and two other famed flyers to sit on a War Department board of inquiry into the Army's airmail operations. Clarence Chamberlin accepted. Orville Wrright blamed ill health for his refusal. Col. Lindbergh declined because "I believe that the use of the Army Air Corps to carry...
...President. What was the matter? Had he been misled into a policy that was damaging the Administration with the country? The two generals marched out of the President's office looking very subdued and sober. After they had gone, Mr. Roosevelt dictated a letter to Secretary of War Dern. Excerpts...
...mileage formerly covered by private operators. A House Committee announced it would find out what, if anything, was wrong with the Air Corps' planes. While the President was ordering air mail curtailment by the Army another newsworthy event was taking place at the War Department. Into Secretary Dern's office marched Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh who, at the Secretary's invitation, had flown from New York with Mrs. Lindbergh. What the Secretary and the Colonel talked about for an hour and a half, they alone knew. Mr. Dern explained that he had sought "general advice" on aviation...