Word: stimson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington the civilian heads of the armed services announced that the manpower problem is still unsolved-and growing worse. In a joint statement War Secretary Stimson, Navy Secretary Knox and Maritime Boss Emory Land pointed out that before year's end the armed services must have 1,400,000 more men, almost all to be drawn from essential industries. Meantime, they pointed out, critical industries are short of manpower right now. Aircraft plants need 200,000 workers, navy yards 5,000 for construction of submarines alone, radio and radar factories 30,000, synthetic-rubber plants...
Eddie Rickenbacker, World War I ace and, on occasion, envoy extraordinary for Secretary of War Stimson: "Sorrow will come to a million American homes...
...from the manpower muddle was a belated equivalent of War I's "work or fight" order. First proposed last October by Connecticut's Representative Clare Boothe Luce, the replacement of drafted war workers by noncontributing 4-Fs was now suddenly endorsed by General Hershey, Secretary of War Stimson, Under Secretary Robert Patterson and Assistant Secretary of the Navy Ralph Bard. The Army & Navy would still like a National Service Act, which is politically impossible to get. They fall back on Congresswoman Luce's bill. Some dopesters thought it unnecessary, thought a public listing of 4-F idlers...
...Washington, War Secretary Stimson pronounced the epitaph on the latest Allied attack: "The simple fact is the Germans stopped...
...case might have ended there, if Loury from his cell had not appealed to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Negro Judge William H. Hastie, onetime aid to War Secretary Stimson and dean of the Howard University School of Law, and New York Congressman Vito Marcantonio, took up the case. Evidence which had been presented in Noumea courts and affidavits showed, they said, that Loury and Fisher had been railroaded...