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Somewhere in the next years-when Coolidge and Hoover gave him high position-the mantle of elder statesman began to settle imperceptibly around Henry Stimson's lean shoulders. He shared and symbolized the nation's ideals and hopes ("the only deadly sin I know is cynicism," he once wrote). Always above petty intrigues, he was by then broader than politics, and wiser than the current clich...
...Secretary of State under Hoover, he sternly warned that the unchecked Japanese invasion of Manchuria (in 1931) held the threat of a new war. When Manchuria led to Ethiopia and Ethiopia to the Rhineland and war in Europe, Franklin Roosevelt urged the old man to forget his Republican leanings and become his Secretary of War. Elder Statesman Stimson went back to Washington...
Died. Henry Lewis Stimson, 83, lawyer, soldier and statesman, U.S. District Attorney by appointment of Theodore Roosevelt, Secretary of War under Taft, Governor General of the Philippines under Coolidge, Secretary of State under Hoover, Secretary of War under Franklin Roosevelt and Truman through World War II; in Huntington, N.Y. (see U.S. AFFAIRS...
Steuben glass (Steubenites think the word "glass" is redundant) has done much more than catch the coattails of success in both art and business. Steuben now has some 20,000 customers a year, including Trygve Lie, the Duchess of Windsor, J. Edgar Hoover and President Truman, who has sent Steuben ware as gifts to Princess Elizabeth and Princess Wilhelmina (TIME, Nov. 10, 1947). Seventeen U.S. museums display Steuben's glass, which ranks among the finest, most expensive crystal glassware in the world...
...Hoover. 4. Vandenberg...