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...rising clamor for a separate, independent U.S. air force last week impelled the War Department to take action. Reporting this action to Congress, in an effort to stave off more drastic changes, Secretary of War Stimson announced...
Then Ambassador Winant hurried on to meetings and interviews-with Secretary Hull, Harry Hopkins, Secretaries Stimson and Knox, many others-until 2 every morning...
...Washington, War Secretary Stimson declined to say what effect Army occupation would have on management's status beyond: "We want to get this plant . . . to producing ten planes a day again. . . . All the rest is mere detail." Temporarily, at least, it appeared that the Army had simply assumed North American's personnel problem, would let management continue to boss production...
...will not write his memoirs. ∙∙ Congress heard that Captain Jimmy Roosevelt was loading his chest with medals, raised its brows, learned he holds the Brazilian Order of the Southern Cross, the Dominican Order of Military Merit, the Belgian Order of the Crown. ∙∙ Secretary Henry L. Stimson, in a strike-stricken week, upped the War Department work week from 39 hours to 44 at the same pay. ∙∙ Vice President Henry A. Wallace stepped to bat in a charity softball game, nearly swung himself off his feet at a ball three feet wide of the plate...
There is no other weekly newspaper in America which in one short year has achieved so many kudos as the Panama Coast Artillery News. Last week, about to celebrate its first anniversary, the News had on hand congratulations from the President of the U.S., the President of Panama, Secretary Stimson, Chief of Staff Marshall, Comedians Lew Lehr and Eddie Cantor (Lehr: "Monkeys is the craziest people and so is the editorial staff of the P.C.A. News...