Word: stimson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Henry L Stimson recalled the stricken faces of young officers who met him when he stepped from a plane in Newfoundland: they had heard a rumor that the personage arriving on the plane was Hedy Lamarr...
Last week Sergeant Snuffy carefully peeled the last potato of a stretch on K.P. (a familiar penalty for his habit of overstaying leave), then climbed into his best uniform, went out to the windswept airdrome, stood at deadpan attention while War Secretary Henry L. Stimson read the citation and pinned around his neck the blue ribbon and golden star of the Congressional Medal of Honor. Sergeant Snuffy was the second soldier in the European Theater of Operations to receive the nation's highest award,* the first live man to wear...
...Henry L. Stimson arrived quietly in England by air the day after he had taken an official peek at U. S. troops in Iceland. The trip was the 75-year-old Secretary of War's first to an operational theater since the U.S. entered...
...Washington bigwigs who manages to find time for his prewar recreations is Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson. Fanatically vigorous for a 75-year-old, he carries out a daily program that would tax a man of 50. At "Woodley," his baronial estate in Washington, he tramps for an hour before breakfast, plays deck tennis for an hour before dinner, plays croquet with obvious condescension when oldsters like Secretary Hull are his guests. For pre-lunch exercise he keeps Indian clubs in his office. Twice a week he rides hired horses at Maryland's Meadowbrook Club, rides...
...rose Director Oveta Gulp Hobby: "There is absolutely no foundation of truth in the statement." Tough old War Secretary Henry L. Stimson was moved to issue a formal statement: "... I have made a thorough investigation of all these rumors.* They are completely false. . . . Anything which would interfere with [WAAC] recruiting or destroy the reputation of this corps and, by so doing, interfere with increase in combat strength of our Army, would [aid] the enemy...