Word: stimson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Department flatfooted. It admitted that the story was indeed a fraud, launched an inquiry by Lieut. General Hugh A. Drum, commander of the First Army, to fix responsibility. While the press howled for ex-Hollywood Press Agent Lynn Farnol's scalp, Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson announced a reorganization of Army press-agentry, which had been in the works before the air-marker story. The new system, intended to prevent just such blunders and to end rivalry among Army units for headlines, centers responsibility for all Army publicity in the War Department's public-relations chief, Major...
Said Statesman Stimson: "The Army has no place in its organization for promoters of news. My own concept is based on an old Bible text from I Kings 20, 11: 'Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that putteth...
With the expressed appreciation of Secretary of War Stimson to herald the change, the American Red Cross-Harvard University Hospital has been taken over by the United States Army. The Hospital, located in southern England, will be the central laboratory for United States armed forces in Great Britain...
...diploma at Yale. Son of a noted lawyer and railroader, he married the boss's daughter first, then-after proving his ability with other firms-became a partner in the old banking house of Brown Bros. Harriman & Co. Called to Washington in 1940 as special assistant to Secretary Stimson, then made Assistant Secretary of War for Air, he found what he now fondly calls "a hell of a mess." To Bob Lovett, more than any other one man, goes credit for unifying the Air Corps, giving it a chance to design and buy its own equipment for its transformation...
...Works. What makes Sister Kenny's treatment so successful? This question has stumped doctors ever since her amazing number (80%) of recoveries forced them to recognize her unorthodox work. Last week Dr. Philip Moen Stimson of Cornell offered a "rationalization" of the Kenny method in the Journal of the American Medical Association...