Word: stimson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pulled up in front of stiffly assembled Army divisions. Eight times the President heard the 21-gun salute followed by ruffles and flourishes; eight times he sat at attention for the national anthem while Old Glory whipped the breeze above regimental colors dipped in salute. With Secretary of War Stimson and Governor Lehman beside him, with General Drum riding in the jump seat, the President looked on at a great show of man power...
Then the President moved on to Ogdensburg to meet his old friend William Lyon Mackenzie King, Prime Minister of Canada. They met in the railway car Roald Amundsen in the Rome Yard track at Ogdensburg, while the sun beat down unmercifully outside. Only Secretary of War Stimson witnessed the meeting. Outside laborers stuffed huge hunks of ice into the car's air-conditioning system. A few grizzled chickens grubbed aimlessly among the weeds that all but concealed the adjoining tracks. A group of truck drivers idled about the foot of a monument that marks the site of Fort...
...over in a fortnight or so. Unless the profits tax rates are upped, the three proposals should then go through intact under the leadership of Congressional Tax Boss Pat Harrison, who is working for Mr. Big again. The advantage to Defense was made clear by Secretary of War Henry Stimson, who appeared before the House Ways & Means Committee to plead for the whole bill. "Uncertainty," said Lawyer Stimson, "in respect to the industry's right quickly to amortize its investments in expanded construction, and also the uncertainty as to the amount and character of taxation which will be levied...
...well advanced was this malaise by mid-week that Secretary of War Henry Lewis Stimson and General Marshall had to go up Capitol Hill, plead for action which most U. S. people already wanted. After three weeks in his new job, 72-year-old Mr. Stimson looked a little worn. His voice quavered, alike from weariness and irritation. But in his grave, informed statement of U. S. peril in Hitler's world, Henry Stimson pulled no punches. House committee quibblers drove him to distraction, finally drove him to his best line of the day: "All this talk of wait...
...this week, when a compromise version of the Burke-Wadsworth Bill emerged at last from the Senate Military Affairs Committee, Henry Stimson's fire and logic had yet to convert many a doubter. Biggest obstacle to conscription still was the Congressional state of mind typified by Iowa's grey GUY MARK GILLETTE. Like most of the other opposition Senators, Mr. Gillette has voted for billions in emergency Defense appropriations. Last week he announced that conscription should be delayed until there is an emergency. For good measure, Guy Gillette also devised a new definition of military training: "This idea...