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...enforce such orders, WPB's Compliance Section and Requisitioning Branch got tougher too. Compliance accused Hoover Co. (vacuum cleaners) of misusing some 350,000 lb. of secondary aluminum, forbade it to touch any aluminum for three months. Requisitioning seized 78,000 lb. of copper sheet from a bathroom-supply dealer named Katz, who had refused to sell it to Metals Reserve. Washington was getting too small for Requisitioning's expanding Ogpu; its boss, Ernie Tupper, went to Manhattan, looked at space in the Empire State Building...
Married. Lieut. William McChesney Martin Jr., 35-year-old ex-head of the New York Stock Exchange, drafted last April; and Cynthia Davis, daughter of Davis Cup Donor Dwight F. Davis, ex-Secretary of War (under Coolidge), ex-Governor General of the Philippines (under Hoover) ; in Baltimore...
...first time, Franklin Roosevelt looked around for a New Dealer of Cabinet rank to exchange for Deputy Prime Minister Walter ("Wai") Nash of New Zealand. To his surprise, he couldn't find one. So he dipped down into the Republican grab bag and came up with Herbert Hoover's old Secretary of War, angular but still handsome Patrick Jay Hurley...
...experimental Douglas bomber with a bomb capacity of 18 tons and 7,750 mile range (TIME, April 28). *Davison was Lovett's predecessor as the War Department's air assistant-secretary; his appointment ended in the Hoover Administration in 1932, and until Lovett was appointed the vital job was vacant. *Corresponding to G-I on the War Department General Staff. †Not to be confused with Colonel Harold H. ('"Pursuit") George, who last week was made a Brigadier General for gallantry in Luzon. **This week the Army got its youngest general: 36-year-old Brigadier General Laurence...
This arrangement saw its counterpart in at least three theaters of war last week, where U.S. armed forces were actually functioning under a single command. In the western Caribbean, Rear Admiral John H. Hoover was in supreme command. In the Canal Zone, Lieut. General Frank M. Andrews, Air Forces, was top man. In Hawaii, Admiral Chester W. Nimitz had been placed over Lieut. General Delos C. Emmons of the Air Forces, top Army man of the Islands...