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...life were still ahead of him. He was to become first Herbert Hoover's Secretary of State, then-at 72-Franklin Roosevelt's gruff, wise and trusted wartime Secretary of War. Only last week did the long voyage come to an end. At 83, Elder Statesman Henry Stimson died of a heart attack at Highhold, his rolling, 123-acre estate on Long Island...
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...
...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...
...Wagons. All this gallimaufry seemed to embarrass Senator Brien McMahon, a traditional-type politician. As chairman of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, McMahon had taken on the mantle of an atomic statesman, and he kept it wrapped determinedly about him. He paid no attention to his Republican opponent, ex-Congressman Joseph Talbot of Naugatuck (Yale LL.B. '25), another old school politico who was picked partly because he was, like McMahon, a Roman Catholic. Big and old-shoe friendly, Talbot toured the state in a blue-and-yellow sound truck emblazoned: "No red on my bandwagon," and accused Democrats...