Word: stimson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...once. Hot arguments about the motives and the merits of the President's proposal flew back & forth. Then an Elder Statesman spoke-and the momentary silence that followed his words showed a shamefaced realization that at his own moral level there was no reply. Secretary of War Stimson, whose years have carried him beyond party and personal ambition, appeared last week before the Senate Military Affairs Committee to plead for the National Service Act. His appeal was directed straight to the conscience of every American. He said...
...Navy Secretary Frank Knox and War Secretary Henry Stimson wrote a joint letter to the Council of State Governors. Obviously, they said, 48 individual States could not handle the complex job of polling servicemen: "The War & Navy Departments do not advocate or oppose any particular voting legislation. . . . [But] the Services are unable effectively to administer the diverse procedures of 48 States as to 11,000,000 servicemen all over the world in primary, special and general elections...
...unions balked. Said Mr. Roosevelt: "I cannot wait until the last moment." That night reporters stayed on & on at the White House, for Secretary Stephen Early had refused to "put the lid on." At 7 p.m., in a 1,100-word statement, the President gave Secretary of War Stimson complete power over every one of the 233,670 miles of railroad track in the U.S., from the one-mile-long Valley Railroad in McKean County, Penna. to the $2,000,000,000 Pennsy (24,928 miles). The Secretary may even take over subways, tunnels and streetcar lines, if need...
...praised the U.S. press for not jump ing the gun, then to War Secretary Stimson, Navy Secretary Knox, OWI Boss Elmer Davis be said: Hereafter no war information "having a security value" shall be issued in advance, on a hold-for-i'elease basis; such news will be available for printing or broadcast the moment it is issued...
...half a million jobs in the Army which women could fill: "Nothing leads me to believe that we are going to get a volunteer army of 400,000 or 500,000 women. We've never been able to get a volunteer army of men that big." War Secretary Stimson hoped that U.S. women would come to feel a personal responsibility "in this total war." But he did not have much hope. Mr. Stimson's recommendation: compulsory service...