Word: stimson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...contrast to 1940, when he stole headlines by appointing Henry L. Stimson and the late Frank Knox to Cabinet posts just four days before the Republican Convention...
...resigned because he said the War Department failed to live up to its promises to give Negroes more vital jobs to perform, especially in the Air Forces. He charged that General "Hap" Arnold would have busted all Negroes out of the Army Air Forces if War Secretary Stimson had not intervened...
...project, suggested in TIME'S recent cover story (April 3, see cut) on Dr. Vannevar Bush, director of the war-born Office of Scientific Research and Development, derives from OSRD's extraordinary effectiveness in World War II. Secretary of War Stimson and Secretary of the Navy Forrestal appointed the "Committee on Postwar Research" which last week began to draft plans for the new agency. The committeemen have all been active in OSRD...
...Secretary Stimson announced that the Army has 3,657,000 overseas, of its total strength of 7,700,000. These men are on every continent and hundreds of islands from Iceland to Biak. (Peak A.E.F. strength in World War I was 2,057,675.) To nourish this great force supply lines stretch more than 56,000 miles, to every continent. Some 1,150,000 of the Army's troops outside the U.S. are in the Air Forces...
Said Secretary Stimson: "It is on the shoulders of these men, and their comrades in the U.S. who are scheduled for overseas deployment, that the fate of the final phase of overall strategy-the period of decisive action-depends." In the U.S. are 1,300,000 trained men held as reserves, "ready to follow...