Word: dewitt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Judge Denman accused John J. McCloy, Assistant Secretary of War, of the new crime of "bureaucratic omniscience" for coming to DeWitt's defense. He prepared a petition to Congress, printed 5,000 exhibits of a letter he had written McCloy...
Inferno. The plaintiff was chalk-haired, Roman-featured Federal Judge William Denman, 69-year-old chairman of World War I's U.S. Shipping Board. Jurist Denman accused General DeWitt...
...reply, able Mr. McCloy (see p. 20) backed DeWitt to the hilt. Wrote he: "I know of no Army officer in whom I would place greater confidence. He has thought of more dangers that might threaten the West Coast than even you with your alert mind have thus far conceived...
...General DeWitt, as he has right along, kept mum. As military dictator over 12,000,000 apprehensive citizens in eight States and Alaska, General DeWitt was credited by the Army with having done a superb administrative job. Since Pearl Harbor, without fuss, he has moved thousands of Coast Japanese to places of safekeeping for the duration, has closed race tracks, bidden Pasadena's big Rose Bowl game go East...
...root of the trouble lies General DeWitt's tight-tongued refusal to make his plan public. The trouble seemed to lie in the Army's tell-the-people-nothing attitude...