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Just what the future held for Admiral Kimmel and General Short was still a matter for speculation at week's end. The White House indicated that Secretaries Knox and Stimson would decide on what awaited them...
Charles Augustus Lindbergh called on War Secretary Henry L. Stimson, offered to serve his country as a soldier, preferably in the Air Corps. Mr. Stimson gave Citizen Lindbergh a job as a civilian expert, doing research on a mysterious "commercial project" for the War Department...
Secretary of War Stimson last week announced the Army's goal for 1942: 3,600,000 men. With that many men in the ranks (almost double its present strength), the Army will be only 65,000 shy of the full manpower it had at the end of World...
Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson told a press conference the Army's program will double the armored forces, more than double air combat strength and raise the strength of the Army--now at 1,700,000 men--to 3,600,000 by the end of the year...
...born in Wisconsin, took up nursing after being left a widow before the war. Onetime assistant superintendent at Chicago's Augustana Hospital, she joined the Army in World War I, served in France, China and the Philip pines. For twelve years before she succeeded Major Julia C. Stimson as super intendent of the Corps in 1937, she was with the Walter Reed General Hospital in Washington. Gracious, grey-haired, she wears her major's oak leaves like a veteran...