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...regular ROTC summer camps will be suspended until at least six months after the war, the Military Science Department announced yesterday. The information received in a radiogram from Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson offered no explanation for the sudden cancellation, but the War Department stated that details would follow...
...Present aim of the War Department is an army of three and a half million men-so said Secretary Stimson. Estimates of ultimate aims are astronomical...
...Country & For Yale. Bob Lovett, Wall Streeter (partner in Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.), director in half-a-dozen railroads, banks and insurance companies, went to Washington in December 1940 as an assistant to Secretary of War Stimson (whom he reveres as a great and effective official). He was no tyro at the flying game, as Army men speedily discovered when they looked up his record...
...thinking, was to get the Air Corps at least a start toward autonomy within the framework of the War Department. How he did it, Bob Lovett will not say. It was probably done by peaceful argument in the many conferences with War Department top men, from Secretary Stimson and Chief of Staff George Marshall down through the General Staff. However he did it, he did it. Lovett's hand did not show, but the results...
RANDOLPH FIELD, Tex., Feb. 2, 1942--Although recent action by Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson knocked off the two-year college requirement formerly needed for enlistment as an Aviation Cadet, the United States Army Air Corps is still in need of men who have received special college training, Gulf Coast Air Corps Training Center officers declared today...