Word: johnson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Johnson would find himself in an awkward box. He met the issue head-on at a press conference with a classic head-ducking remark. "I am supporting the President's program," announced Johnson flatly. Then he added warily: "And I'm not quarreling with Congressmen...
...reviewing stand of Washington's Army Day parade, new Defense Secretary Louis Johnson and the Commander in Chief shared a secret that the marchers knew nothing about. When the parade was over, Johnson announced that, so far as he was concerned, that was the last Army Day. If Congress approved, the cherished Army, Navy, Marine and Air Force Days would be unified into a single "Armed Forces Day." Swallowing hard...
...Page One, at least, it looked as if Louis Johnson was making fast progress towards unifying the armed forces. But there were plenty of skeptics who asserted that unity was still only headline-deep. Last week as his No. 1 assistant, publicity-conscious Louis Johnson surprised everybody by picking a publicity man: Franklin D. Roosevelt's old press secretary, Stephen T. Early. Congress had newly created the job of Under Secretary of Defense to give Johnson a workhorse general manager. (World Bank President John J. McCloy was offered the job, but turned it down.) Whatever Steve Early might lack...
...Washington correspondent for 16 years before he went to the White House, Early sacrificed a $25,000 job as vice president of Pullman Inc. to take $12,000 as Johnson's top hand. Gruff and imperious, but well-liked, Steve Early could enforce Johnson's ban on competitive publicity stunts by the services, do much to win the boss a good press. Moreover, Early had once given his old friend Johnson the best advice of his life. When Roosevelt broke his promise to Johnson and appointed Republican Henry L. Stimson as Secretary of War in 1940, Johnson went...
...Broadway, Paul Kelly played the General with amazing conviction. Clark Gable, who runs things in the movie, simply wrinkles his forehead and looks sincere. The rest of the cast, and there is a lot of it, wears immaculate uniforms and strides stiffly through Hollywood-brand operations rooms. Only Van Johnson, amazingly enough, who has a set-up part as the General's cynical aide, can touch the acting of the stage version. The play's wonderful single set has been augmented with shots of model B-17s plowing into picturesque English landscape; when the command decision is finally made...