Word: stimson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...poor people of Booger Hollow, Ark., deep in the Ozark Mountains, had taken years & years to save $75 toward building a community house. Last week they invested the $75 in defense bonds, reported the matter to Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson. Said they: "What good is a community house without freedom...
...statesmen, notably U.S. Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson, met the crisis of Sept. 18, 1931 with courage and a sense of international ethics. A few news papers, notably the New York World-Telegram, met it with prescience and responsibility. Last week the World-Telegram reprinted its editorial of Sept. 19, 1931. Excerpts...
Vigorously besoming away at this wholesale housecleaning, the War Department was aware that it was raising quite a dust, hoped press and politicians would not raise a howl when some local heroes got swept out. Anticipating such squawks, Secretary of War Stimson said last week to the U.S. public...
Many doctors favor declaring red-light districts out of bounds. Under the May Act, passed last June, the Secretary of War can fix zones in which prostitution is a Federal offense. So far Secretary Stimson has done nothing. Probably the law will be enforced only in sections where local officials refuse to do their own cleaning up. Another difficulty: like the Army, prostitutes have become mechanized. They move around in cars and trailers, can't be put off Federal roads...
...bill was enough to set Army tongues wagging in officers' clubs from Manila to Trinidad. They wagged faster because the measure had been drawn at the instance, not of meddling politicians, but of the War Department itself. It had the approval of Secretary of War Henry Lewis Stimson, Chief of Staff George Catlett Marshall and all the rest of the Army's top crust, with one exception. That exception was the Quartermaster General, Edmund Bristol Gregory. True to Army tradition, he said little more than that he was against...