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...white suit and Panama hat, strutted into the White House one day last week for a 15-minute chat with Franklin Roosevelt on New York politics. The talk was so good that Mr. Smith overstayed his time by 30 minutes. In an anteroom Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson and OWI's Elmer Davis cooled their heels until the political talk was over...
Thus wrote precise old (73) Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson to handsome young (40) Major Henry Cabot Lodge. Senator from Massachusetts, just returned from Libya, where he observed* the first U.S. armed forces that made actual contact with the Germans on land. Long (18 years) a reserve officer, energetic Henry Cabot Lodge has a peacetime history of preparedness. Under a directive issued by the President, Major Lodge-and all other legislators in the armed forces-had to resign either from active duty or from their Congressional posts. Last week Senator Lodge, up for reelection, made the Secretary...
...season of honorary degrees is War Production Boss Donald M. Nelson. By this week he had four-from Harvard, Northwestern, Missouri, Pennsylvania Military College. Among others given honorary degrees last week: Mme. Chiang Kai-shek (in absentia), Raymond Gram Swing, Sumner Welles, Cornelia Otis Skinner, Frank Knox, Henry L Stimson, J. Edgar Hoover, Nicnolas Murray Butler...
...apathy. As late as last March, civilians shrugged off any preparation as a nuisance. When the returns came in from the Far Pacific, they began to buckle down. When Brigadier General James H. Doolittle raided Tokyo, they worked a little faster, got a little more tense. When War Secretary Stimson predicted Jap face-saving raids as a certainty, civilian volunteers began to hold nightly drills. The Coast went on a 24-hour alert...
...week's end, the case of Corporal Barrow was put up to Secretary of War Stimson...