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This week Lieut. Commander Stassen made things a little easier for Joe Ball. To Secretary of the Navy Knox he wrote saying he would do nothing to seek the nomination, but would "consider it to be my plain duty to accept...
Said Navy Secretary Knox: "Our general information was that Truk was one of the strongest bases of the enemy. They withdrew [the fleet] from Truk, there's no doubt about it." And in his opinion "they" made a mistake. "Truk," said ever-ready Frank Knox, "was the place to fight...
Turned down by War Manpower's production urgency committee on a plea to lift his employment ceiling from 42 to , McKinnon won an appeal to the local War Manpower Commission. His argument, backed by Mayor Harley Knox, labor, religious and other groups: there was "community hardship" in that freedom of the press existed only for Colonel Copley's papers...
Such wide generosity has long irked foot soldiers and sailors who note flyers wearing as many as 14 decorations. But something is being done about it. This month President Roosevelt ordered Secretaries Knox and Stimson to formulate regulations for a new medal, the Bronze Star, to be awarded Army, Navy and Marine Corps personnel "for heroic or meritorious service not involving aerial flight," i.e., a sort of Air Medal for ground and surface forces...
...lieutenant, ran smack into the stone wall of deep-sea tradition. Seafaring commanders balked at giving up their time-honored shore authority over their own crews. Enlisted sailors, used to the comradely patrols from their own ships, balked too. It took an order from Navy Secretary Frank Knox to give Ingoldsby and his crew real authority. Then Ingoldsby went to work, got his unit going in a matter of days...