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...Notably: James A. Farley (TIME, June 23), Henry Morgenthau Jr. (TIME, Sept. 29), James F. Byrnes (TIME, Oct. 20), Henry L. Stimson (TIME, Jan. 5), Cordell Hull (TIME, Jan. 12). * From Morgenthau's memoirs: "I remember John Garner turning to me one day in Cabinet meeting and saying, half jokingly, half not, 'Damn you old moneybags. Until you came along Mrs. Garner and I averaged 16% a year on our money, and now we can't get better than...
...said the New England Committee for the Marshal Plan, regional affiliate of the national body headed by Henry L. Stimson, was aiding in the contacting of other schools and had also pledged financial help in the connection...
...conviction of the Navy," wrote Stimson, "that escort was not merely one way of defeating the submarine; it was the only way that gave any promise of success." The admirals felt that the airman's job was merely to help guard convoys. The airmen argued that planes were the most efficient sub killers. It was a squabble which was never finally settled...
...Stimson made some effort to divide the blame. "To the Air Forces, the Navy was a backward service with no proper understanding of air power; to the Navy, the Air Forces was a loud-mouthed and ignorant branch which had not even mastered its own element...
...would, old Armyman Stimson could not hide his real convictions. Though he found Navy Secretary Frank Knox "a man of robust integrity without any trace of pettiness," he could not say the same for the Navy as a whole. The whole trouble, he summed up acidly, was "the peculiar psychology of the Navy Department, which frequently seemed to retire from the realm of logic into a dim religious world in which Neptune was God, Mahan his prophet, and the United States Navy the only true Church...