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...December, two prominent scholars at Harvard graduate schools died. Stimson Professor of Law C. Clyde Ferguson, an authority on human rights and affirmative action, died at 59 of a heart attack. Ferguson had served as dein of Howard University Law School and U.S. ambassador to Uganda, and had held numerous other academic and diplomatic posts before joining the Law School faculty...
...death of Stimson Professor of Law C. Clyde Ferguson in December left the Law School without a tenured minority professor and precipitated a new round of student protest...
...death of the Stimson Professor of Law the week before Christmas leaves law student activists, particularly minority students, without the leadership of perhaps the only faculty member they fully trusted. Ferguson's accessibility and his sane advice will be sorely missed as student activists continue to push for the hiring of minority faculty members, increased student input on Law School administration, curriculum changes, and other weighty reforms...
Brinkley, for example, writes in Harper's that McCloy "had not initiated the relocation plan, and he was not a major factor in the decision to implement it." Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson strongly supported the proposal, as did the West Coast military command and California Attorney Genera Earl Warren, he notes...
...July of 1941 President Franklin Roosevelt decided that war was inevitable, and he asked his Secretaries of War and Navy, Henry Stimson and Frank Knox, for a strategic plan to defeat potential enemies. They sent the assignment to Army Chief of Staff General George Marshall, who called in Brigadier General Leonard Gerow, chief of war plans. Gerow turned to the best-qualified, brightest man he could find, a 44-year-old infantry major named Albert Wedemeyer...