Word: stimson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Letters from wets descended on Senators. Sample: "Good Lord! . . . Please, oh please!" When War Secretary Stimson, Navy Secretary Knox came out flatly against the Lee Amendment, Senators at last saw the light. They voted (49 to 25) to send it back to the Military Affairs Committee "for further study...
...Tokyo made a prodigious fuss about the captivity, trial and punishment of U.S. flyers who fell into Japanese hands after the bombing of Tpkyo. With the caution accorded only to vital international questions, Secretary Stimson and the U.S. State Department left the question of retaliation for future settlement. ^ Ottawa reacted with equal sensitivity to news about the handling of German prisoners in Canada...
...Secretary Stimson said: "It is possible that a very few of the crew members were forced down in territory occupied by the Japanese when they ran out of gasoline, and have been captured." He said that the names given by the Japanese were similar to those on the official list of missing men. Later, when the Japs announced four more names, one was confirmed (Lieut. George Barr, of Queens Village...
...Male-sherbes risked and lost his life to defend Louis XVI from the revolutionary tribunal." In vain law schools have attempted to get army deferments for some of their students, on the grounds that lawyers hold many big jobs in the war effort (notable example: War Secretary Henry Stimson); a law course is good training for military command. Now most of them are resigned to making the best of a bad bargain, namely, small enrollments composed of women...
...recognized as essential by every fair-minded citizen; but when the enemy is able, on the other hand, to truthfully contradict statements issued by the War Department on American losses, a situation has arisen that is hardly morale-building. Just such was the case when Secretary of War Stimson was forced to admit last week that members of General Doolittle's Tokyo bombing party are now prisoners of Japan. After the raid Doolittle stated that "no planes were left behind in Japan." It is now known that several planes were forced down in Manchuria and other Jap-held regions. With...