Word: stimson
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Cordell Hull, maneuvering skillfully in Havana (see p. 20), and his Assistant Secretary of State Adolf Berle, are Franklin Roosevelt's mainstays on all-important Foreign Policy. Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox, the splintered War Department's Henry Stimson (see p. 20), and their ranking officers (Stark, Marshall), along with Industrialists William Knudsen and Edward Stettinius, Labor's Sidney Hillman, are often at the White House to talk and administer Defense (see p. 77). A curious, fateful fact about Franklin Roosevelt is that none of these men-not even Cordell Hull-belongs to the President...
...money-power for war) outweigh those of most full-fledged Cabinet members. That Assistant Secretary Johnson, despite his sundry deficiencies, had done a standout job, one of his harshest critics (Columnist Hugh Johnson) admitted last week. That Louis Johnson's new boss, Republican Secretary Henry Lewis Stimson, should not want to keep an ambitious, embittered assistant was understandable. That the President at such a stage of Defense (see p. 17) should have tossed out the one War Department executive who knew most about the job was not so understandable...
...were sacrificed to Henry Wallace (see p. 12). Disillusioned Mr. Johnson crawled back to Washington. There he wrote a letter to "My Dear Mr. President," black with reminders that at the President's request he had passed up his last chance to resign with dignity when Henry Stimson was appointed; that "my Commander in Chief and longtime friend" now left no alternative but resignation. Louis Johnson sighed that he would go back to his law practice (in Clarksburg, W. Va.), signed himself "obediently yours," hopped off to California in an Army plane...
...Roosevelt in a reply to "Dear Louis" regretfully accepted, said that he did so only at Mr. Stimson's instance, then actually invited Louis Johnson, who could not work under Mr. Stimson, to work over him as a Presidential assistant ("my eyes and ears . . . reporting to me on the continuing progress of the entire national defense program"). Offhand, it did not look as if there were a spot where aggressive Mr. Johnson's talents would be of less use, or where his equal talent for getting in other people's hair would wreak greater havoc with...
...Porter Patterson, although he belongs to the Legion, is in no sense "a Legion man" in a job which the Legion long since took for its own. Major Patterson was decorated for bravery in the A. E. F., served in the same division with, but barely knew, Colonel Henry Stimson. After World War I, when both were distinguished attorneys in Manhattan, they became firm friends. Soon after Henry Stimson became Herbert Hoover's Secretary of State, able Republican Robert Patterson was appointed to the U. S. District bench in New York. Franklin Roosevelt last year upped...