Word: armstrong
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Amid the military disasters of 1814, when the British briefly occupied Washington and set fire to the executive mansion, Secretary of State Monroe took over the War Department from bumbling John Armstrong, achieved the rare distinction of holding two top Cabinet posts at once. In 1816 he was elected President with the inevitability of a crown prince succeeding to the throne in a stable monarchy...
Community of Nations. Moderator of this global forum is Hamilton Fish Armstrong, a vigorous, white-haired, bushy-browed man of 69 who qualifies for the post both by lineage and interest. Grandnephew of Grant's Secretary of State, Hamilton Fish, and son of a U.S. diplomat (D. Maitland Armstrong. U.S. consul general to Italy in 1871), Armstrong served briefly as a military attache in the U.S. consulate in Belgrade in 1919 before becoming European correspondent for the New York Evening Post. Then, in 1922, the Council on Foreign Relations, a group of Manhattan financiers, lawyers and businessmen, started Foreign...
With the same care, Armstrong, who became editor after Coolidge's death in 1928, has preserved Foreign Affairs' role as hospitable but impartial host to all international viewpoints. A world observer of considerable vision himself-"A people has disappeared," he wrote in his 1933 book, Hitlers Reich, at a time when most of the world still considered the Nazi leader a harmless crackpot-Armstrong has yielded the floor to the world's thought molders, statesmen and diplomats...
...blue cover, still printed on a flatbed press, still paying heads of government $150 an article. All that has changed is the world. Isolation did indeed die with the last doughboy, as Foreign Affairs' founders so clearly foresaw. "All we can really say after 40 years," says Editor Armstrong,"is that we've been on the right side of a general proposition...
...Armstrong Circle Theater (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). A semidocumentary about the work of marriage counselors...