Word: mccloy
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...left the Federal appellate bench to become Under Secretary, the Secretary's right-hand man, who also handles Army buying. Another is Robert Abercrombie Lovett, wartime naval aviator, Assistant Secretary of War for Air who watches out for The Air Forces. The third is John Jay McCloy, Manhattan lawyer and A.E.F. artillery captain, who supervises Lend-Lease, Army publicity, personnel and many a miscellaneous job besides...
...Nominated Robert A. Lovett, New York businessman, as Assistant Secretary of War for Air (TIME, March 10); and New York Lawyer John J. McCloy as Assistant Secretary...
...take the place left empty by Robert Porter Patterson when he became Under Secretary of War, the President appointed Manhattan Lawyer John Jay McCloy (see p. 62) as Assistant Secretary...
Onetime A.E.F. artillery captain, Jack McCloy has been in Washington since September as special assistant to War Secretary Stimson. Manhattan Private Banker Robert Abercrombie Lovett was appointed Assistant Secretary of War for Air, a spot that has been vacant since Herbert Hoover's time. As a special assistant, thin-cheeked Bob Lovett, wartime naval aviator and wearer of the Navy Cross, has been hard at work since De cember on Air Corps problems, carries the hope of Army airmen that he will give them the kind of representation they need in high Army councils...
...MOONLIGHT-Helen McCloy - Morrow ($2). Fairly cerebral story of murder at Yorkville University, where Victim Dr. Konradi, an Austrian, had found refuge and money for biochemical research. When suspects refuse a lie-detector test, a psychiatric assistant to the D. A. does his stuff...