Word: johnson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...what Louis Johnson ably accomplished in those years is history: building up the puny Army air arm, sending Army officers on a survey tour of 20,000 factories to prepare for war production, placing "educational" orders for war supplies, stumping the country preaching preparedness in more than 400 speeches...
...Thunderclap. All this time Harry Woodring hung on to his job, helped by Franklin Roosevelt's chronic reluctance to fire anyone. Not until early 1940 did the blowoff finally come. At the President's instructions, Johnson had begun shipping arms and munitions to beleaguered Britain, by arbitrarily declaring them unfit for U.S. use and thus legally available for export. Woodring refused to permit such goings-on. But Roosevelt insisted, and Woodring resigned in a letter so bitter that it has never been published in full...
Acting Secretary Louis Johnson was ready, willing and panting to ascend the vacant throne. One summer afternoon the telephone from the White House rang...
...Roosevelt was sending up Louis Johnson's formal nomination for the job the next week. Everything...
...Republican Frank Knox to be Secretary of the Navy. The move had obvious political advantages to Roosevelt, but he was also mindful of Hitler's sweep through Europe, and wanted the services of Stimson and Knox. It would be hard to tell who was angrier: the Republicans or Johnson. But he was still nursing another ambition: to be Vice President. Two weeks after the first blow fell he was shunted aside again at the Democratic Convention in favor of Henry Wallace. The end had come...