Word: orders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This one was to be an executive order. It would bristle with "whereases." It would be written in language which could not fail to convince everyone that Mr. Truman, while a candidate for reelection, nevertheless was still Mr. Johnny-on-the-job. High officials who later had it quoted to them (few ever actually got to see it) remembered such phrases as "unfriendly country" and "mobilization to meet an attack." Whereas the country was so ill-prepared for attack, the document continued, the Defense Department was ordered to organize the nation's reserves and report progress within 60 days...
Forrestal had already acted. The story around the Pentagon was that he telephoned Steelman and told him that the wording of the order was unthinkable. He sent the document to Major General Harold Bull, deputy director of G3, with instructions to take out the "unthinkable" passages and write an order which could be issued without scaring the wits out of the whole nation, if not the world. When General Bull finished his draft it was forwarded to Harry Truman on his campaign train...
Today and tomorrow, regular day forces will remain on duty later and the night relief group will arrive earlier, in order to counteract the usual series of minor vandalism and disfiguration...
...Winthrop is a fire hazard. Mr. Reynolds has said so. Since such is the state of affairs I want to know why the chain barrier is raised every night in front of Kirkland House. Twice now friends of mine have looked for someone to take the chain down in order that they could return to their own schools . . . but no one seems to have the keys. If cars cannot get out, how could fire engines hope...
Mathematics 1a is in third place with 549, while Government 1a. which led the pack two years ago, is now fourth with 453. History 1a has 371 members, and a newcomer to the top half dozen, Music 1, keeps 329 on its rolls. In close order follow History 61a with 327 and Geology 1a with 326 undergraduates...