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...final report on his trip to China. He talked over the setup of a "home defense" for the U. S. in a conference with ex-Ambassador William Bullitt, Assistant Federal Security Administrator Wayne Coy, Budget Director Harold Smith, Harry Hopkins. Before traintime he saw Secretary of War Stimson, talked with William Knudsen about appointments to the National Defense Mediation Board. Secretary of Commerce Jesse Jones rode on the Florida-bound special with him. At Jacksonville the President paused to inspect the new $40,000,000 naval air training station. And out on the fishing grounds a seaplane shuttled back & forth...
Smart, quiet Judge William Henry Hastie, dean of Howard University School of Law in Washington, who is Secretary of War Stimson's adviser on Negro affairs, engineered the formation of the 99th. Many Negroes applauded his feat, but many squawked. Their complaint: segregation of the 99th. Until Negro cadets went to the same air schools, joined the same squadrons that white fliers did, these fighters for race equality would consider it a Jim Crow Air Corps...
Through one long day the President held council with Secretaries Cordell Hull and Henry Stimson, Under Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal, General Marshall. Admiral Stark. The conference began in the morning, broke off for lunch and new business, began again, with Secretary Morgenthau and Harry Hopkins added, in the late afternoon. It went over, point by point, the final inventories of British war needs and available U. S. supplies-the long-range bombers, ships, field guns, machine guns, ammunition (estimated total cost: $500,000,000) that could be shipped as soon as the Lend-Lease Bill was signed. Beyond...
...post on the Committee, which was formed about a month and a half ago by Secretaries Knox and Stimson, Keppel said that he will strive to improve morale in the armed forces of the nation. His object is to solve entertainment problems of soldiers and to better the communities surrounding army camps...
...fight roared up to its hottest as the OPM was set up. The U. S. was getting into the second stage: tooling up. The OPM itself was a four-man board on which two were advisory dummies-War Secretary Henry Stimson, Navy Secretary Frank Knox. Boss was a two-headed man named Knudsenhillman, whose like had never been seen on land or sea, but who looked exactly like a Roosevelt compromise. The struggle raged about a job that will one day perhaps be all-important: executive secretary of the OPM. The $1-a-yearlings wanted the job for Fredrick...