Word: stimson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Birthdays. Secretary of State Cordell Hull, 71, second oldest member of the Cabinet (oldest: Henry L. Stimson, 75); on vacation in Virginia. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, 73; incommunicado at Poona...
...result of Secretary of War Stimson's announcement a month age, the presumption now is that all enlistees in the Military Reserve may expect to be inducted into the regular Army at the end of the scholiast term in which they attain their draft age. Exception may be made, however, in the case of a very few pre-med, pre-dental, and electronics concentrators. "I am willing to guess," said Perkins, "with the situation as vague as it is, that we will have a clear statement from the War Department within the next two or three weeks...
...Army Air Force Reserve is affected by Secretary Stimson's announcement in the same way as the E.R.C. This means that those applicants who can pass the flight training physical are enlisted in the Reserve, and kept in college until the Army wants them. Men with ground crew ambitions should in general join the Enlisted Reserve Unassigned, and seek transfer to the Air Force ground crew when they have the necessary educational background...
...Louis' debts to one of his co-managers, John Roxborough. Mike Jacobs looked terrible: he was to be the chief benefactor after Army Emergency Relief. Another: Yankee Stadium, which insisted on 5%, Bataan or no Bataan. But the War Department looked the worst: Secretary Stimson's own staff had cavalierly fumbled the whole affair, had made stupid promises to Louis and Conn. Example: The sportswriters were told that a representative of the War Department had promised Louis that his debts would be cleaned up if he fought, and even that his back income tax of $117,000 would...
...Secretary Henry L. Stimson was kinder, but no less firm. "Has my good friend Arthur Krock been sending shivers down your spine?" he asked reporters at his press conference. "There is no plan in the War Department to use military correspondents to replace civilians. There are now more than 230 civilian correspondents in the war theaters and they are doing a splendid...