Word: kimmel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President's role in this matter has been uncertain and vacillating. This latest dissension, moreover, raises once more much wider questions about the President's administrative policies. It is, after all, merely the latest of a long series of such disagreements-between General Short and Admiral Kimmel, Mr. Hillman and Mr. Knudsen, Mr. Ickes and Mr. Henderson, Mr. Eberstadt and Mr. Wilson, Mr. Patterson and Mr. Jeffers, Mr. Jeffers and Elmer Davis, Mr. Byrnes and the War Labor Board, Mr. Ickes and the War Labor Board, Chester Davis and Mr. Vinson, and, most notorious of all, between Vice...
...Magnuson story was only another manifestation of unanswered U.S. suspicions that the Pearl Harbor affair may disclose skeletons in Washington closets. The feeling had been, heightened by Rear Admiral Husband E. Kimmel's reply to a Collier's article by Senator Harry Truman (TIME, Aug. 28). Truman charged that Army and Navy commanders in Hawaii had failed to cooperate, implied that both were heavily responsible...
...Lieut. General WalterC. Short's and Rear Admiral Husband E. Kimme's failure to coordinate their efforts was one of the things responsible for the disaster at Pearl Harbor. (Kimmel protested this week that Truman made "false statements concerning my conduct...
...second time, Congress last week extended the deadline for filing of court-martial charges against Rear Admiral Husband E. Kimmel and Lieut. General Walter C. Short...
...probability was that there would be no public airing of the Pearl Harbor linen until after the November election. Attorney General Francis Biddle handed down a convenient legal opinion that fore cast an indefinite delay. Ruled Biddle: because Admiral Kimmel and General Short have waived the two-year statute of limitations, they can be court-martialed whenever the Army & Navy get around to it, regardless of Congressional deadlines...