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Perhaps the busiest official in Washington last week was James Vincent Forrestal, 52, a slight, slender man with a broken nose, a man who once told an interviewer that his hobby was "obscurity."
With the death of Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox (TIME, May 8), pipe-smoking Jimmy Forrestal had taken over as acting boss of the biggest navy in history. As the brisk and efficient Under Secretary of the Navy in charge of procurement, he had had a major share in...
Jimmy Forrestal plunged into his new job with characteristic vigor. Returning from Frank Knox's funeral at Arlington National Cemetery, he put in two hours of work at his office. Forthwith, he inaugurated daily staff meetings with Assistant Navy Secretaries Ralph A. Bard and Artemus L. ("Di") Gates. He...
This week as the nation buried Frank Knox in Arlington Cemetery, almost every public figure but Sewell Avery was being mentioned as his successor. Among them: Under Secretary Forrestal, 52, a Democrat, ex-president of Wall Street's Dillon Read & Co., and now Acting Secretary; Admiral William D. Leahy...
But when the Army's men, headed by Secretary of War Stimson, had testified, the Navy uttered a "No." Navy Under Secretary James Forrestal said that the Navy was "definitely in opposition" to any immediate step toward merger. Whether merger after the war would be acceptable Mr. Forrestal was...