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...will be able to point to them, as well as to Businessmen Frank Knox, Jesse Jones, Leo Crowley, James V. Forrestal, Bernard Baruch, Donald Nelson, Chester Bowles, Robert A. Lovett, as representatives in the administration of the business viewpoint. (To Conservatives he can point out Cordell Hull, Henry L. Stimson, the Southern Democrats-and he can always manage to get rid of New Dealers *Harry Hopkins...
...history of one of the great U.S. achievements of World War II-the building of the Army-was brought up to date. This week General George Catlett Marshall, Army Chief of Staff, laid the most dramatic chapter on the desk of Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson. It covered the two years in which the Army came of age and was blooded in battle...
Last week, not yet 17, Staff Sergeant Clifford R. Wherley, his chest bright with medal and campaign ribbons, leaned back in War Secretary Stimson's office chair, sitting before Robert Todd Lincoln's old desk, and received the press. Still under age, Hero Wherley was being discharged from the Air Forces. But before his uniform and stripes are put away, Cliff will make a nationwide morale tour. The story he has to tell is a boy's dream in Technicolor. The Army believes it will spur a landslide of 17-year-old enlistments. Cliff Wherley...
...Henry L Stimson recalled the stricken faces of young officers who met him when he stepped from a plane in Newfoundland: they had heard a rumor that the personage arriving on the plane was Hedy Lamarr...
Last week Sergeant Snuffy carefully peeled the last potato of a stretch on K.P. (a familiar penalty for his habit of overstaying leave), then climbed into his best uniform, went out to the windswept airdrome, stood at deadpan attention while War Secretary Henry L. Stimson read the citation and pinned around his neck the blue ribbon and golden star of the Congressional Medal of Honor. Sergeant Snuffy was the second soldier in the European Theater of Operations to receive the nation's highest award,* the first live man to wear...