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...Washington talked under its breath last week of the possibility that the U. S. might soon find itself at war with Japan, Admiral Harold Raynsford Stark, Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral James Richardson, Commander in Chief of the U. S. Fleet, and Secretary of Navy Frank Knox conferred in Washington. Before them was not the question of what foreign policy the U. S. should pursue, not the question of whether the U. S. should or should not fight Japan. Their duty was simply to consider the practical problem of what the U. S. Navy should do if called upon...
Last week Popeye in the flesh (of Actor Harry Foster Welch) stalked into the Washington office of Admiral Harold Raynsford Stark, Chief of Naval Operations to the OPNAV he presented a belligerent self-portrait, to be used as official insignia for a new squadron of Navy bombers. Said the Admiral pridefully: "You have always been an inspiration to men in the Navy...
...were not the only bigwigs at Boston's Conference. For twelve years it has studded its two-day conclave programs with big names, from Cordell Hull to Elizabeth Arden. This year it lined up Sir Louis Beale of the British Purchasing Commission, Missouri's Governor Lloyd C. Stark, Akron's Harvey S. Firestone Jr., Vogue's Editor Edna Woolman Chase, many another. Unlike the ivied theorists of college round tables who know what to do but are in no position to do it, Conference experts have facts & figures at practiced fingertips...
When the yelling had quieted down, Truman had beaten Stark by 8,000 votes, with Milligan a poor third, and Missouri voters found to their dismay that, in a year when Louisiana had kicked out the remnants of the Huey Long machine, they had voted to restore Pendergastery. Old Tom Pendergast was out of Leavenworth on probation, and under the lee of Mayor Bernard Dickmann's St. Louis machine the Pendergasters in Kansas City could now mend their battered breeches. No one believed that Republican Candidate Manuel A. Davis would be strong enough to beat Truman in November...
...result of these and other speed-up measures, Secretary Knox and his Chief of Naval Operations, Harold Raynsford Stark, announced that the U. S. Navy might have its new ships-including the new second-ocean navy-by 1944, two to three years ahead of original schedule. Good as this news was, Navy men hoped they would not have to fight their next war before then...