Word: stimson
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...until a week before his death. Politically it was manifest in his early mistrust of Roosevelt II (he called for "fewer and better Roosevelts", and in 1936 he was the Republicans' violently anti-New Deal vice-presidential nominee). But in June 1940, Knox and fellow Republican Henry L. Stimson entered Franklin Roosevelt's cabinet. He knew the move would be linked with the GOP convention which followed it, instead of the fall of France which preceded it. Said he: "I will be shot at from all sides, damned and denounced [but] I am an American first...
Knox's death at 70 was the first in Franklin Roosevelt's war cabinet, though as the New Deal has aged it has become increasingly a gerontocracy.* (Four other cabinet members are in their seventies: Stimson, 76; Hull, 72; Jones and Ickes...
...only welcoming I have done for some time has been welcoming Germans and Italians into hell. I have ... got about 177,000 there." (The total of Axis soldiers killed by all Allied soldiers in Tunisia, Sicily, and the opening weeks of the Italian campaign as announced by Secretary Stimson, on Oct. 29, was about...
Said Messrs. Stimson, Knox and Land: "This nation sacrificed 60 bombers and 600 men to cripple the German ball-bearing plant in Schweinfurt, but it cannot obtain the workers here at home to fill the production lines of our own bearing and foundry industries...
...Messrs. Stimson, Knox and Land again urged a national service act. But last week the House Military Affairs Committee flatly declined to report a bill which would force 4-Fs into war work or Army labor battalions, asserting that the Army already has all the authority it needs to draft 4-Fs for noncombat service...