Word: stimson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spoke the Secretary of War, Henry L. Stimson: "I have determined that Sergeant Barrow and Corporal Conn shall be returned at once to their military duties. The standards and interests of the Army do not permit the proposed contest to be carried out. There is no reflection upon the principals...
Birthday. Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson, 75; oldest member of the Cabinet (next oldest: Cordell Hull, 70; Frank Knox, Jesse Jones and Harold Ickes, all 68). He spent the day hard at work in Washington, where he had been Secretary of War under Taft, 1911-13; Secretary of State under Hoover...
...will have to lodge a lot of others in the same bed with him. E. V. Rickenbacker, leading U.S. ace in World War I, said early this month during a tour of air combat training centers that the U.S. was superior both in aircraft production and design. Secretary Stimson refrained from commenting on "the reported inferiority of our planes because I have been waiting for a well-founded complaint." Two Army majors sagely told the Society of Automotive Engineers in New York that while "it may be admitted that for altitude work we have not yet been able to match...
Except for Secretary Stimson's recent remarks, the Enlisted Reserve Corps situation has not changed, and until further action is taken it is still advisable for premedical men, physicists, and other specialists to join this...
Except for Secretary Stimson's recent remarks, the Enlisted Reserve Corps situation has not changed. Just what action will be taken with reservists who become 20 is still not certain, and the Reserve remains, even for those who may be taken at the end of the term in which they become 20, an excellent method of leaving college in an orderly manner, rather than being drafted out just before the end of the term...