Word: stimson
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...History Channel: Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970). A balanced, almost documentary view of winter 1941, including the very distinct possibility that FDR and his top brass knew about it ahead of time. On the American side, Martin Balsam, Jason Robards and Joseph Cotten as Secretary of State Stimson, and S? Yamamura and Tatsuya Mihashi manning the aerial battering ram. A full complement of directors, one American and two Japanese, make this a true learner for those whose schoolbook days are mercifully over...
...very least, we have nothing to lose by lending our sizable support to the treaty. Without ratification by the United States and Russia, the CWC would become "a wedding without the bride and groom," in the words of Amy Smithson of the Stimson Center, a non-profit Washington, D.C. think-tank. Countries such as China, Pakistan, Indonesia and Iran have all expressed willingness to ratify only once the U.S. and Russia have done...
Milton Katz '27, Harvard's Stimson professor of law, emeritus and former director of the Marshall Plan, died on August 9 of cardiac arrest...
Katz was appointed lecture on law in 1939, and rose to professor of law in 1940. He was named Byrne professor of administrative law in 1946. In 1954, he became Stimson professor of law, a post he held until...
...World War II era saw the further entrenchment of Bechtel's financial and political clout. The federal government turned to Bechtel to construct warships for both the British and American fleets. And after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Secretary of War Henry Stimson literally ordered Bechtel to build the Alaska Oil Highway...