Word: stimson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week Franklin Roosevelt had been busy with conferences pointing toward Quebec. He appointed Secretaries Stimson, Hull and Morgenthau as a special Cabinet committee to work out U.S. proposals for unkinking the economy of liberated countries, met the committee three times in three days. He had his first full-dress session with the Chiefs of Staff since his return from the Pacific. He summoned Robert D. Murphy, soon to be the top U.S. diplomat in Germany. He had a chat with British Ambassador Lord Halifax (and made a bet with him-amount undisclosed-on the war's end-date...
Questioned in Washington, Secretary of War Stimson declared: "I have had no more information . . . than was published from SHAEF.* That announcement stated that the moves were ordered as a consequence of the rotation policy now in effect, a policy which is caused by the great number of correspondents who must be taken care of in the theater...
Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson asserted: "The terrible lessons of this war should convince every thoughtful American that responsible military preparedness is the only means by which peace and security . . . can be maintained...
...road a mile-long column of German vehicles traveling bumper to bump er was caught by Allied attack planes, which smashed or burned nearly every one. In Washington, Secretary Stimson declared that the amount of wrecked or abandoned German transport in some places was actually hampering Allied prog ress. Mr. Stimson added with a twinkle in his eye that this was a kind of delay "to which our ground forces could be easily reconciled...
Died. Bronson Winthrop, 80, Manhattan Old Guardsman, onetime partner of Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson in the famed Manhattan law firm of Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam & Roberts; in Syosset, Long Island...