Word: stimson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...five-minute press conference (see PRESS), he made the week's biggest news. He made his first appointment to the Supreme Court. He made tough-minded Robert Patterson his Secretary of War, gave his kudos and the Distinguished Service Medal to retiring Old Soldier-Elder Statesman Henry L. Stimson. With one hurried stroke he had put the scattered war labor-relations bureaus under Labor Secretary Lewis B. Schwellenbach. With one brusque stroke he had cut Economic Stabilizer William H. Davis' job out from under...
...week when Henry Lewis Stimson ended his public career, men debated whether the Bomb, the bombing or seapower had won the war. But they agreed, in paying tribute to the retiring Secretary of War, that by his own effort he had done much to cut the war's fearful cost...
...Henry Stimson went home with his wife to West Hills, L.I., on his 78th birthday. The crowded week had brought him the Distinguished Service Medal, awarded by Harry Truman for 40 years of work, "exceptional in the history of the nation." There had been the big reception at Dumbarton Oaks, the farewell press conference, the final Cabinet meeting. Henry Stimson. correct and courtly as ever, loved...
...Roosevelt called him in to recreate the Army-at that time (June 1940) under 300,000 men. There were officers who looked up at his old-fashioned portrait in the Munitions Building (painted when he was Secretary under Taft), and shook their heads at the ancient's return. Stimson ignored the Senators, soon brought his officers up short...
...pinned because he confused rather than informed Short with his messages. And both Marshall and Gerow were criticized because they did not take steps in the last few days to inform Short that his anti-sabotage alert was inadequate to meet the storm that might break. (War Secretary Stimson characterized the criticism of Marshall as "entirely unjustified...