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...Henry L. Stimson arrived quietly in England by air the day after he had taken an official peek at U. S. troops in Iceland. The trip was the 75-year-old Secretary of War's first to an operational theater since the U.S. entered...
...Washington bigwigs who manages to find time for his prewar recreations is Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson. Fanatically vigorous for a 75-year-old, he carries out a daily program that would tax a man of 50. At "Woodley," his baronial estate in Washington, he tramps for an hour before breakfast, plays deck tennis for an hour before dinner, plays croquet with obvious condescension when oldsters like Secretary Hull are his guests. For pre-lunch exercise he keeps Indian clubs in his office. Twice a week he rides hired horses at Maryland's Meadowbrook Club, rides...
...rose Director Oveta Gulp Hobby: "There is absolutely no foundation of truth in the statement." Tough old War Secretary Henry L. Stimson was moved to issue a formal statement: "... I have made a thorough investigation of all these rumors.* They are completely false. . . . Anything which would interfere with [WAAC] recruiting or destroy the reputation of this corps and, by so doing, interfere with increase in combat strength of our Army, would [aid] the enemy...
...sofa. She helped organize the Mrs. Roosevelt's Press Conference Association and several months ago. when PM's Gordon Cole applied for admission, she was the only member to back him (she believes in equality for men, too). The press conference she jokingly resents is War Secretary Stimson's, because Mr. Stimson invariably looks through and beyond May Craig and says: "Good morning, gentlemen...
...closely geared to the military through Secretaries Knox and Stimson, and by the presence of Harry Hopkins, who is close to all great strategic decisions, and is immensely powerful through his job as head of the Munitions Assignments Board, which divides military supplies among Army, Navy and Lend-Lease. (Hopkins, long entrenched in his White House foxhole against the savage attacks of his thousands of enemies, will now, by virtue of his job, be in a much more exposed position...