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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rankin was also at odds with the government. Not content with mere New Dealers, he jumped on Secretary of War Stimson, crying that Communists had been allowed to obtain commissions in the Army. He demanded Stimson's resignation, and put up the name of General George Patton for the job. The government, however, found it wise to disregard not only this piece of advice, but a staggeringly high percentage of the other suggestions Rankin offered in his brief tenure as de facto chairman of Dies' committee. In 1946, the Republican scoop displaced the Mississippian in favor of J. Parnell Thomas...

Author: By David E. Lilienthal jr., | Title: Americanism, Inc.: III | 10/20/1948 | See Source »

...past year the Journal ran the Stimson memoirs, the Stilwell diary, the Robert Capa-John Steinbeck Russian essay, a presidential series by Roger Butterfield, articles on bad housing, "The Alcoholic and His Women," and "Why Do Women Cry." By male tastes (which do not matter to the Journal), its "problem" fiction is below the standard of its articles -but it is not for want of hunting for new authors or problems. The Journal took twelve first stories (at a minimum of $750) by budding writers. Its fiction, food and architecture displays are decorated with wide-open, four-color layouts that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Ladies' Choice | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

...month, and reads them all. Some of the best stuff is unsolicited: Columbia Historian Henry Steele Commager's article on the witch-hunt mentality ("Who Is Loyal to America?") which 65,000 readers requested in reprint, came in the morning mail. Ex-Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson arrived in person with his headline-making article on "The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Harper's Referee | 7/12/1948 | See Source »

Once a newspaperwoman, interviewing Economist Herbert Feis (rhymes with nice), thought that his eyes reflected "the soul of a young Shelley." In 1931, Secretary of State Stimson, who was not seeking a Shelley, read the young professor's Europe, the World's Banker and made him economic adviser to the State Department. Feis held the job until 1944, when he got tired of U.S. muddling in economic policy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Castilicm Juggler | 5/3/1948 | See Source »

...Secretary of War Henry Stimson, analyzing that horrifying idea, wrote this week in the Ladies' Home Journal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Pax Americana | 4/5/1948 | See Source »

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