Word: stimson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson: "The United States Government . . . administered a stinging, humiliating surprise blow when it bombed Tokyo. . . . This means Japan has suffered a serious loss of face which can be wiped out only by a similar, even larger return blow. We have tried to put our house in order...
...Henry Stimson wanted U.S. citizens to expect the blow, to nerve themselves to take it. The Japanese would sneak one or more carriers close to the West Coast-or to the Panama Canal or to Alaska-and take revenge. The Germans could do something similar to the East Coast. The people could only hope that the U.S. defenses were better than Tokyo's-and that the people would not be as frantic as Tokyo's civilians...
Franklin Roosevelt said: "I have brought all the former Governors and High Commissioners, for 20 years back, down here to greet you." Excited, happy Manuel Quezon greeted Henry L. Stimson, Dwight F. Davis, Frank Murphy, Paul V. McNutt, Francis B. Sayre...
...Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (TIME, May 18) came into legal being last week. Immediately Secretary Stimson appointed as director one of the most remarkable Texans in Washington: Mrs. Oveta Gulp Hobby, 37-year-old mother of two. Her rank corresponds to that of an Army major. Slim, trim, quiet and pretty, Mrs. Hobby has a taste for fancy hairdos and shocking hats. In the Corps she will wear a uniform hat, but will probably continue to ruin the hairdos by running her hands through her pompadour while thinking. She does a lot of thinking. Her husband, former Texas...
Finally, both forces hold their noses at men who want a commission so as to dodge the draft or dodge the fight. War Secretary Stimson's No. 1 officer rule is that no one gets a commission so that he may duck the draft. And in the Navy, hundreds of frisky young officers holding desk jobs recently got a jolting communiqué: get on sea duty-or else...