Word: stimson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spite of Washington whisperings about his age, principally on his own Republican side of Congress, Henry Lewis Stimson runs the Army. He probably lives closer to its high command than any Secretary since Newton D. Baker. Among Army men he is classed with the best Secretaries they have had in modern War Department history: Baker and Elihu Root...
...when the shining new War Department building on Washington's Virginia Avenue was opened two months ago. Its broad halls and stately offices were a beacon for any man who loves comfort and elegance. Many of the civilians in the department moved to the new building. But Henry Stimson hung on to his old office in the rabbit warren of the rambling Munitions building where most of the Army's Washington soldiers work...
...Stimson is on the job all the time. He knows everything that goes on in his department and in the course of a year has missed only three Cabinet meetings. His appointment book, meticulously kept, is like the schedule of a fast train, by the minute...
Administrator. Henry Stimson has during his year in office himself picked the three men who are his chief civilian aides. One of them is earnest Robert Porter Patterson, onetime overseas infantry officer and D.S.C.-man, who left the Federal appellate bench to become Under Secretary, the Secretary's right-hand man, who also handles Army buying. Another is Robert Abercrombie Lovett, wartime naval aviator, Assistant Secretary of War for Air who watches out for The Air Forces. The third is John Jay McCloy, Manhattan lawyer and A.E.F. artillery captain, who supervises Lend-Lease, Army publicity, personnel and many...
They are a sensible, hardworking, sometimes overserious staff, no New Deal crackpots. Secretary Stimson assigns them jobs, turns them loose to let them work in their own way, backs them up in emergencies, and holds them fully accountable for results. All his aides stand in considerable awe of him. For his anger is withering although as cold as his logic...