Word: stimson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fifth month of prospecting, the Pearl Harbor Committee at last unearthed a rich find-a broad, deep vein of comment and discussion of the 1941 tragedy by ex-War Secretary Henry L. Stimson, studded with pure history in the form of notes from his diary. Significant excerpts...
...reading his diary, Henry Stimson summarized...
Harold Ickes made Hastie an assistant solicitor in the Interior Department. In 1937 Franklin Roosevelt named him U.S. District Judge in the Virgin Islands, the first Negro ever to sit on the Federal bench. As civilian aide to War Secretary Stimson in 1941, William Hastie pushed and prodded for Negro recognition in the services, finally got the War Department to set up the 99th (all-Negro) Fighter Squadron. Two years later, disillusioned over the Army's persistent segregation policy, he resigned...
...assignment as chief of the Army Service Forces' Legal Section. Appointed by the President, he served as counsel for the eight German saboteurs-a job which, as a professional, he thoroughly enjoyed. Afterwards he sank back into the obscurity of the ASF's Legal Section, until Henry Stimson discovered him and made him his special assistant...
Rediscovered by Secretary Robert Patterson, who had been Stimson's Under Secretary, Royall was marked by Washington gossips for the top War Department job when solemn Bob Patterson retires. The man from North Carolina, who was once one of the state's best trial lawyers, was not excited. His ambition: "I'd kind of like to go back to my home town...