Word: stimson
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...other inoculations,* the entire U. S. Army is to be vaccinated against yellow fever. Secretary Stimson gave the order last week. The vaccine, developed in 1936 by the Rockefeller Foundation, is made from yellow-fever virus grown on chick embryos. One dose immunizes against the deadly, mosquito-borne disease for at least two to three years...
Having been officially pronounced responsible for the disaster of Pearl Harbor, Rear Admiral Husband Kimmel and Major General Walter C. Short asked Secretary of the Navy Knox and Secretary of War Stimson to let them retire from their country's service. If the President, on the secretaries' recommendation, said yes, each would get a life pension of $6,000 a year. If he decided instead to dismiss them outright, the.y would have to be vindicated by a court-martial before they could claim their retirement pay. Both the Army and the Navy hoped that their request would...
...regular ROTC summer camps will be suspended until at least six months after the war, the Military Science Department announced yesterday. The information received in a radiogram from Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson offered no explanation for the sudden cancellation, but the War Department stated that details would follow...
...Country & For Yale. Bob Lovett, Wall Streeter (partner in Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.), director in half-a-dozen railroads, banks and insurance companies, went to Washington in December 1940 as an assistant to Secretary of War Stimson (whom he reveres as a great and effective official). He was no tyro at the flying game, as Army men speedily discovered when they looked up his record...
...thinking, was to get the Air Corps at least a start toward autonomy within the framework of the War Department. How he did it, Bob Lovett will not say. It was probably done by peaceful argument in the many conferences with War Department top men, from Secretary Stimson and Chief of Staff George Marshall down through the General Staff. However he did it, he did it. Lovett's hand did not show, but the results...