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Franklin Roosevelt said: "I have brought all the former Governors and High Commissioners, for 20 years back, down here to greet you." Excited, happy Manuel Quezon greeted Henry L. Stimson, Dwight F. Davis, Frank Murphy, Paul V. McNutt, Francis B. Sayre...
...Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (TIME, May 18) came into legal being last week. Immediately Secretary Stimson appointed as director one of the most remarkable Texans in Washington: Mrs. Oveta Gulp Hobby, 37-year-old mother of two. Her rank corresponds to that of an Army major. Slim, trim, quiet and pretty, Mrs. Hobby has a taste for fancy hairdos and shocking hats. In the Corps she will wear a uniform hat, but will probably continue to ruin the hairdos by running her hands through her pompadour while thinking. She does a lot of thinking. Her husband, former Texas...
Finally, both forces hold their noses at men who want a commission so as to dodge the draft or dodge the fight. War Secretary Stimson's No. 1 officer rule is that no one gets a commission so that he may duck the draft. And in the Navy, hundreds of frisky young officers holding desk jobs recently got a jolting communiqué: get on sea duty-or else...
Battle of Europe "We are going to get on the offensive and do it at the earliest possible moment," said old Secretary Stimson in Washington...
...most Americans at home, this was the first direct word from their soldiers in the field. The men in Bataan, Australia, the Middle East, Iceland, Ireland also had their innings. For them, as well as the home front the Army put Secretary of War Stimson, Lieut. General Lesley McNair, commander of the Army Ground Force, and the commanders of the four U.S. home armies on the air. Their soldierly words, though guarded, managed to convey a reassuring outline of the growing U.S. Army...