Word: stimson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...leather-bound pictorial history of the U.S. In rapid order, President Truman had a 45-minute conference with Secretary of State Stettinius, then a 48-minute session with the war leaders: Generals Marshall, Vandegrift and the Air Forces' Barney M. Giles (subbing for "Hap" Arnold); Admiral King; Secretaries Stimson and Forrestal. At noon he broke his first precedent: he went up to Capitol Hill for lunch...
From a sympathetic observer last week came a report on an infantry division which the U.S. Army has watched with keenest interest: the Negro 92nd. The man who made the report was Truman K. Gibson, Negro civilian aide to War Secretary Stimson. The essence of what he had to say: the 92nd's battle performance had been something less than good...
...mother. In trying to explain why this tragic aftermath of a trifling disease was never noticed before, some doctors guess that an unusually virulent strain of German measles virus may have appeared in Australia and been carried to other countries by heavy war time traffic. But Dr. Stimson thinks that doctors have just begun to notice what has been happening all along. Possible reasons why the worst damage is done in the early months: 1) the placental barrier which tends to prevent transmission of disease from mother to child takes several months to develop fully; 2) the embyro is more...
...doctor has suggested exposing all young girls to German measles. This would make most, but not all, permanently immune. Dr. Stimson's advice: keep pregnant women away from cases of German measles; if a woman is exposed, give shots of pooled human blood plasma or serum to fight the disease. He thinks abortion will "have to be considered very seriously" whenever the disease appears in early pregnancy...
...wrote Indignant Citizen to the Tallahassee (Fla.) Democrat. Indignant Citizen had been roused by a characteristic Peglerian display of calculated bad temper, in which Pegler accused Secretaries Stimson and Forrestal of "a dangerous conspiracy . . . to abolish the freedom of the whole people." The Tallahassee paper, well aware that everybody talks about Pegler but nobody does anything about him, said it would take a vote if enough readers demanded one. The demands quickly filled three columns. Among them...