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Last week the Roosevelt Administration took up Mr. Wilson's gun-or-butter theme. Fragile, 73-year-old Secretary of War Henry Lewis Stimson announced that non-military airplanes hereafter will be classed as butter. With chilly disapproval, he quoted a report that booming, under-equipped U. S. airlines hoped by mid-1942 to double the 322 passenger planes now in service. Secretary Stimson told the airlines and their manufacturers to forget that program, count themselves lucky if they can continue their rate of replacement. Said Henry Stimson: "Which is more vital to the nation right now-increased military...
WASHINGTON-Secretary of War Henry 1, Stimson said today that preliminary reports on two of last Tues day's munitions plant explosions showed no evidence of sabotage, but that ere was a "peculiar regularity about the explosions which might have suggested Toutonic efficiency...
Only the strong may continue to live in freedom and in peace." Secretary of War Henry Lewis Stimson, 73, stepped to the jar. Fragile, twittery Lieut. Colonel (retired) Charles R. Morris, who blindfolded Newton D. Baker for the first draft drawings of World War I, did the same for Mr. Stimson (with a bandage made from the cover of a chair in Independence Hall, sanitized with a sheet of Kleenex). Secretary Stimson gingerly put his left hand in the jar, took the first capsule he touched, handed it to Mr. Roosevelt. The President, old stager that he was, glanced...
Messrs. Roosevelt & Stimson made way for other dignitaries, who drew the next 18 registration serial numbers (192, 8,239, 6,620, 6,685, 4,779, 8,848, 6,262, 8,130, 5,892, 5,837, 5,485, 6,604, 8,946, 5,375, 7,674, 4,880, 4,928, 105). Then Brigadier General Hershey's crew took over, finished the job. It took them until 5:48 a.m. next day. Out over the U. S., by radio and news ticker, the numbers flowed, establishing the "national master list," which along with personal and local circumstances would determine the order...
Secretary of War Henry Stimson was expected to resign about Jan. 1. For the vacancy New Dealers wishfully promoted Robert P. Patterson, now Assistant Secretary. But best indications were that Patterson would go with Stimson. New York City's Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia was still a strong possibility...