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The suit raised a touchy point: would Defense Secretary James Forrestal, Commerce Secretary Harriman, Assistant Secretary of State Draper, et al., all high in the Administration and all ex-members of defendant firms, be dragged into the suit? No, said Clark. Only officials currently in the firms are affected. But...
The former Vice-President called for the resignations of Secretary Forrestal and Assistant Secretary Lovett, charging that as former investment bankers they were unfit for high office at a time when their decisions may mean the difference between war and peace. he was correct in his assumption that a banker...
He told the nearly 7,000 people at the AVC sponsored forum in the Soldiers Field baseball diamond that "we cannot continue polices conceived by Wall Street and military men," naming Robert Lovett, Under Secretary of State, General Draper, Assistant Secretary of the Army, and Forrestal as those who should...
Charging that the Marshall plan, as enunciated here by the Secretary of State at Commencement-time, has been abandoned by the Administration, Henry Wallace last night called on three government figures--among them Defense Secretary James Forrestal--to return to private life.
Next day, at 9:45 a.m., Jimmy Forrestal gave an aide an order: "Get the Chief Justice down here at noon. I want to take the oath." It took a lot of scurrying to round up the big Army & Navy brass, four Cabinet members and four Senators; they and Chief...