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...moment, the President paused to act on domestic troubles. This program note was an executive order creating a new superagency called the Office of War Mobilization. Headed by Justice James F. Byrnes, OWM will include in its membership Secretaries Stimson and Knox, Harry Hopkins, Donald Nelson and the new face of Judge Fred M. Vinson. Mr. Roosevelt's personal program was unwritten but plain: from now on he would be Commander in Chief. "Assistant President" Jimmy Byrnes would boss the home front. Boss Jimmy promised the U.S.: "Many attacks on many fronts lie ahead...
Armor General. The Army moved swiftly to close ranks, named as its new European commander Lieut. General Jacob L. ("Jakie") Devers, chief of the Armored Forces. War Secretary Henry L. Stimson gave him a handsome sendoff: "General Devers has been especially prepared for this assignment. He made a recent trip through the whole African and European theater. He is thoroughly conversant with present and future plans...
...moves nearer the practice in Russia (where half the doctors are women and many are with the Army) and Britain (where regular Army doctors for home service include U.S. War Secretary Stimson's surgeon niece, Major Barbara Stimson). Neither the Army nor the Navy shows any sign of using many women doctors and none will be used at the front. The Navy has immediate plans for only 60 for the WAVES. The Army will use women medicos at the rate of one to every 500 WAACs, and in U.S. hospitals where there are many women patients...
...Finally Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson said: "The needs of the Southwest Pacific are being kept constantly in mind and there will be a constantly increasing flow of military supplies, particularly aircraft, to that theater...
...command, there were about 150,000 officers-14,000 regulars, the rest a grab bag of civilian reserves and National Guardsmen, many over age. It was to give the drafted men a chance to rise from the ranks, rather than to fill great gaps, that War Secretary Stimson and General Marshall set up small Officer Candidate Schools...