Word: stimson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Secretary of War in 75 years has faced such a situation as Henry Lewis Stimson faced last week. He had 1,500,000 soldiers under arms and many of them wanted to go home at a time when he was sure that they were desperately needed...
When the House of Representatives by a one-vote margin told draftees and guardsmen that they would have to serve 18 months longer than they expected, dissatisfaction in the ranks was bound to reach its worst. In that crisis Henry Stimson proved he lacked neither energy nor courage...
...Secretary said he no longer believed that the Senator had intended to send his post cards directly to draftees. Said the Secretary: "I am sorry that on the basis of incomplete evidence, I made a statement last week which carried a contrary implication." Wheeler, readying another blast against Stimson (on the extension of draftees' terms of service), replied: "I think it was a very decent thing for the Secretary to do." By that time the Senator had a second Cabinet apology-this one from Secretary of the Navy Knox. Wheeler's son, Richard, had applied for admission...
Secretary of War Stimson last week called this innovation "one of the most significant changes of weapons for the Army that has ever taken place." But it is still a future change. Army Ordnance Designer John C. Garand, who developed the Army's new rifle, has an experimental model of the new carbine almost ready for final tests. So has a commercial firm, whose identity the Army wants to keep secret until tests are completed...
...interventionist editorials came out in 65% of the press in the average week. But the weekly percentage fluctuated widely around the average. In the week of May 3, following sharp demand for convoys, interventionist sentiment in the U.S. press skyrocketed to 73%. The following week, when Secretary of War Stimson urged use of the U.S. Navy for convoying, the closer prospect of war brought interventionist sentiment tobogganing...