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Vigorously besoming away at this wholesale housecleaning, the War Department was aware that it was raising quite a dust, hoped press and politicians would not raise a howl when some local heroes got swept out. Anticipating such squawks, Secretary of War Stimson said last week to the U.S. public...
Many doctors favor declaring red-light districts out of bounds. Under the May Act, passed last June, the Secretary of War can fix zones in which prostitution is a Federal offense. So far Secretary Stimson has done nothing. Probably the law will be enforced only in sections where local officials refuse to do their own cleaning up. Another difficulty: like the Army, prostitutes have become mechanized. They move around in cars and trailers, can't be put off Federal roads...
...bill was enough to set Army tongues wagging in officers' clubs from Manila to Trinidad. They wagged faster because the measure had been drawn at the instance, not of meddling politicians, but of the War Department itself. It had the approval of Secretary of War Henry Lewis Stimson, Chief of Staff George Catlett Marshall and all the rest of the Army's top crust, with one exception. That exception was the Quartermaster General, Edmund Bristol Gregory. True to Army tradition, he said little more than that he was against...
Besides Chairman Wallace, the SPABoard consists of War Secretary Henry L. Stimson; Navy Secretary Frank Knox; William S. Knudsen, OPM's Director-General; Sidney Hillman, labor's man; Harry L. Hopkins, Lend-Lease Administrator, Defense-Aid director; and Leon Henderson in charge of Civilian Supply...
...point is any reminder given of Nazi cruelty and lawlessness," the bishop thundered in protest to Secretary Stimson. "We know you will be shocked immeasurably." He added that the handout "might well have been written by Goebbels," and said to newsmen: "Some court-martials might be in order...