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...went according to Jack Kennedy's plan. He very much wanted able New York Banker Robert Lovett, 65, in a key spot. One of Henry Stimson's and George Marshall's top men in the '40s, later Harry Truman's Defense Secretary, Republican Bob Lovett is experienced and respected. One Kennedy staffer said that he wished there were three Lovetts, so that one each could be Treasury Secretary, Defense Secretary and Secretary of State. But Lovett has had a serious stomach operation, and regretfully turned down a Cabinet post...
According to Langer, "the Harvard contingent in OSS was a very powerful one;" included in that group were mostly History Department people, but here and there a professor of something else was accepted. Such a man is Milton Katz, Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law. After a period as Solicitor for the War Production Board and U.S. Executive Officer of the Combined Production and Resources Board (U.S. Britain-Canada)-- work which involved planning industrial mobilization for war--Katz in 1943 joined the Navy and was assigned to OSS duty in the Mediterranean and Western European Theatres...
America is working from "the false assumption that it can operate a government with temporary or amateur people," Milton Katz '27, Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law and Director of International Legal Studies, asserted last night. Katz stressed the need for a "career personnel" in his talk, "Career Implications of the International Scene," the fifth evening meeting of the 1959 Conference on Careers series...
...beating Tom Kehler, 17-16, 15-9, 4-15, 12-15, 15-4. Fourth man Fred Vinton topped Jim Jennings, 6-15, 15-18, 15-11, 15-7. At seven, Charlie Poletti beat Bardyl Tirana, 18-15, 15-6, 14-15, 15-2, and in eighth position Wally Stimson rallied to down Bob Seabring...
Eighteen years, a war, a police action, and 12½ million men after Secretary of War Henry Stimson pulled No. 158 out of the jar, young U.S. men are still being drafted into the armed forces-and the draft remains a subject for controversy. Last week, with selective service scheduled to expire June 30, Defense Secretary Neil McElroy moved against simmering congressional end-the-draft sentiment, asked for a four-year extension...