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...Secretary Stimson announced that in the nine months since Pearl Harbor more than 6,500,000 soldiers have been moved by rail in the U.S.-compared with 1,916,417 in the first nine months of U.S. participation in World War I. In June a million moved by rail. The Army is going somewhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY: Bigger | 9/14/1942 | See Source »

Secretary Stimson's press conference statement last Thursday settled one thing in the minds of students. He made it clear that the ultimate destination of every man is the armed forces and ended the ambiguity presented when the demand for a 10,000,000 man army was stacked up against the policy of deferring undergraduates because they were undergraduates. He ended all thoughts of a diploma before an induction notice except for those whose graduation is imminent. But the fog has not lifted--it has only diminished. The path and the destination are clear, the relative worth to the nation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Johnny Wait for Your Gun | 9/14/1942 | See Source »

Will the Navy and the Air Corps follow the lead of the Army and abandon their deferment programs? Men in the Marines have already received their six-months notice. What is to be the fate of the ROTC? In many quarters, sections of the Stimson dictum were taken to mean that the college units will be given up. When the lowered draft age becomes a reality, will the age limits of the ERC, and any other such groups operating under similar regulations, drop to meet it? And if they do should the colleges go into the English system...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Johnny Wait for Your Gun | 9/14/1942 | See Source »

...Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson said recent legislation increasing base pay of service men and granting financial aid to their dependents has made possible recall to service of several thousand members of the Army Reserve, Enlisted Reserve and National Guard now deferred for dependency...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ERC MEN OVER 20 TO GO IN JANUARY | 9/11/1942 | See Source »

...Stimson said all young men who meet physical and mental standards for military service ultimately will find themselves in uniform...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ERC MEN OVER 20 TO GO IN JANUARY | 9/11/1942 | See Source »

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