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...sleeping under statues last week. Suddenly, shockingly apparent was the fact that responsible officers of the U. S. Army had been dozing at their posts, or-what was worse -fumbling with deadly effect. The official who had most to say about this state of affairs was Henry L. Stimson, Mr. Roosevelt's Republican Secretary of War. Undertaking to explain why the draft and National Guard mobilization had fallen behind schedule (TiME, Nov. 25), he was as blackly frank as William S. Knudsen was on industrial defense. With other dark bits in the news. Mr. Stimson's statement made...
...camps for National Guardsmen, only 15 were on construction schedule. Two were two and a half months behind, one was 60 days behind. Lags in 22 others ranged from one to five weeks. Even sadder than the delays were some of Mr. Stimson's excuses. The Quartermaster Corps (which handles most Army construction) located a big camp in southern Iowa. Building was under way before the corps discovered what the Department of Agriculture must have known all the time: that the arid area did not have enough water to supply the camp. So the bumbling quartermasters had to start...
Edward Francis McGrady looks like a clever negotiator and is one. He can smell labor trouble a mile away, can bring together bitterly opposed and uncompromising elements of labor and management and get them to compromise. Last week War Secretary Henry Lewis Stimson snapped up a suggestion from President Roosevelt, enlisted McGrady in his drive against defense strikes. Tired of waiting for President Roosevelt to elevate him from "little cabinet" status to Labor Secretary, McGrady had gone to work in 1937 for Radio Corp. of America, as vice president in charge of labor relations at $25,000 a year...
...balding, mustached Ed McGrady will try to do for Secretary Stimson and the Army what a whole slew of conciliators for the War Department and Advisory Defense Commission was unable to do without a strike-as at Vultee. Universally respected by management and labor for fair dealing and wise counsel, Ed McGrady at 68 will serve, without pay, as Secretary Stimson's labor trouble shooter...
President Roosevelt had the power (by Act of Congress) to enforce Henry Stimson's dictum. Last week the President put on his velvet gloves, said he did not expect to have to use the power. This week the airline operators fell into line, agreed to turn over to the military services all the recently delivered engines that they could spare, further promised to relinquish $7,500,000 worth of equipment on order...