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...Army Air Force Reserve is affected by Secretary Stimson's announcement in the same way as the E.R.C. This means that those applicants who can pass the flight training physical are enlisted in the Reserve, and kept in college until the Army wants them. Men with ground crew ambitions should in general join the Enlisted Reserve Unassigned, and seek transfer to the Air Force ground crew when they have the necessary educational background...
...spoke the Secretary of War, Henry L. Stimson: "I have determined that Sergeant Barrow and Corporal Conn shall be returned at once to their military duties. The standards and interests of the Army do not permit the proposed contest to be carried out. There is no reflection upon the principals...
...Louis' debts to one of his co-managers, John Roxborough. Mike Jacobs looked terrible: he was to be the chief benefactor after Army Emergency Relief. Another: Yankee Stadium, which insisted on 5%, Bataan or no Bataan. But the War Department looked the worst: Secretary Stimson's own staff had cavalierly fumbled the whole affair, had made stupid promises to Louis and Conn. Example: The sportswriters were told that a representative of the War Department had promised Louis that his debts would be cleaned up if he fought, and even that his back income tax of $117,000 would...
...Secretary Henry L. Stimson was kinder, but no less firm. "Has my good friend Arthur Krock been sending shivers down your spine?" he asked reporters at his press conference. "There is no plan in the War Department to use military correspondents to replace civilians. There are now more than 230 civilian correspondents in the war theaters and they are doing a splendid...
...will have to lodge a lot of others in the same bed with him. E. V. Rickenbacker, leading U.S. ace in World War I, said early this month during a tour of air combat training centers that the U.S. was superior both in aircraft production and design. Secretary Stimson refrained from commenting on "the reported inferiority of our planes because I have been waiting for a well-founded complaint." Two Army majors sagely told the Society of Automotive Engineers in New York that while "it may be admitted that for altitude work we have not yet been able to match...