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This major announcement by Secretary of War Henry Stimson was made verbally at a press conference yesterday, and therefore available reports of his orders were vague and ambiguous. Harvard officials reached late last night had not been informed of the facts and were unable to clarify the announcement on such short notice...
Dean Henry Chauncey last night suggested that Stimson's remarks emphasized the warning of the McNutt report of last week that college students could not be sure of finishing their course of study. Dr. Richard Leopold, acting head of the War Service Information Bureau, added that the Enlisted Reserve would still be advantageous under present conditions for students...
...Cabinet members, only Secretary of War Henry Stimson and Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox are directly concerned with winning the war. But they do not talk high strategy with their President at Cabinet meetings. Certainly Frank Knox, squeezed between a proud, independent Navy and a President with his own ideas of warfare on the blue water, does not often sway the course...
...Department flatfooted. It admitted that the story was indeed a fraud, launched an inquiry by Lieut. General Hugh A. Drum, commander of the First Army, to fix responsibility. While the press howled for ex-Hollywood Press Agent Lynn Farnol's scalp, Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson announced a reorganization of Army press-agentry, which had been in the works before the air-marker story. The new system, intended to prevent just such blunders and to end rivalry among Army units for headlines, centers responsibility for all Army publicity in the War Department's public-relations chief, Major...
Said Statesman Stimson: "The Army has no place in its organization for promoters of news. My own concept is based on an old Bible text from I Kings 20, 11: 'Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that putteth...