Word: johnson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the U. S. Army was a peacetime starveling, this Kilkenny cat-spat was just another bureaucratic brawl. With war abroad, rearmament aswing, and the Army in expensive expansion, the case of Woodring v. Johnson is now a stench in Washington. Last week Franklin Roosevelt took a look at the war in his War Department, let the public have a peek, and, after a year's scandalous delay seemed to be about to end it. Up to last week he actually did no more about it than he had since he first turned mild little Mr. Woodring...
...President Roosevelt was in the midst of a re-election campaign and the easy thing to do was up Harry Woodring. In 1937, having failed to work up much enthusiasm for mild Mr. Woodring, the President chose for Assistant Secretary a go-getting West Virginia lawyer and Legionnaire, Louis Johnson. Reports that Mr. Johnson had been promised his boss's job soon reached the newspapers and the boss. Secretary Woodring thereupon set himself to keeping his job and getting rid of Mr. Johnson, bringing to that effort a hitherto unsuspected vigor. Assistant Secretary Johnson set himself to running...
...though dissension in the War Department were not enough, Washington recently was treated to one of the strangest episodes in New Deal Fantasia. The President's undercover men (Janizaries Corcoran & Cohen) began to shoot at Louis Johnson who all along had been trustfully waiting for the President to make peace by giving him Harry Woodring's place...
...Roosevelt last week fired two barrels at unhappy Mr. Johnson, unhappily for the War Department did not fire either Mr. Johnson or Mr. Woodring. Somewhat musty ammunition for the first shot was supplied by Secretary Woodring himself. At a Cabinet meeting he brought to Mr. Roosevelt's attention a book which appeared last August with an approving foreword by Louis Johnson. Adjusting Your Business to War is a handbook for industrialists, based on a now outmoded plan for mobilizing their resources in wartime. Mr. Roosevelt publicly remarked that no book on Army, Naval or kindred subjects bears the administration...
...second shot was fired over Louis Johnson at the War Resources Board which, with the approval of the President, Assistant Secretary Johnson had too hastily created last summer (TIME, August 21). Mr. Johnson had announced that this board after reviewing his 1939 plan for industrial mobilization would continue to serve, would become in wartime an all-powerful War Resources Administration. Last week the President announced that W. R. B. will make one report to him and then promptly disband. Chortled Harry...