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...first of the two days of locked-door hearings, Secretary of State Cordell Hull and War Secretary Henry L. Stimson went beyond the President's message...
This is a whopping victory for the airlines, a defeat for War Secretary Stimson. Less than four months ago the Secretary pounded many a Washington table, demanded that aircraft makers tear down their commercial-plane production lines, concentrate on military craft...
Secretary of War Stimson last week ordered the 25,000 Military Police now in service with the Army to be gathered into an independent corps. The Army hoped the members of the new outfit would be mellower than their predecessors in World War I, would behave like disciplinarians rather than martinets...
...poor people of Booger Hollow, Ark., deep in the Ozark Mountains, had taken years & years to save $75 toward building a community house. Last week they invested the $75 in defense bonds, reported the matter to Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson. Said they: "What good is a community house without freedom...
...statesmen, notably U.S. Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson, met the crisis of Sept. 18, 1931 with courage and a sense of international ethics. A few news papers, notably the New York World-Telegram, met it with prescience and responsibility. Last week the World-Telegram reprinted its editorial of Sept. 19, 1931. Excerpts...