Word: stimson
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...spite of a good sense of humor, he is so cautious and deliberate in his choice of words that he supplies his small world with few bons mots. Iron Man. Occasionally on a sunny afternoon passersby before Woodley, the Washington estate of onetime Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson, see a curious sight. On the lawn Host Stimson, the well-born Manhattan
...this meant anything, it meant that the President was on the fence and to get him off became the surprising ambition last week of Mr. Hull's predecessor, Republican onetime Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson. Lawyer Stimson's well-meant "Stimson Doctrine," which persuaded virtually all nations not to recognize Japan's puppet state of Manchukuo (TIME, March 7, 1932), led the Great Powers down the deadest dead-end street of latter day diplomacy and in that street they are still stalled. Last week ingenious Statesman Stimson, in an open letter to the Press, clarioned...
...Some "big" presbyterians: Steelmaster Eugene Gifford Grace; Statesman Henry Lewis Stimson: Senator James Couzens; Lumberman Frederick Edward Weyerhaeuser; Will H. Hays; Andrew William Mellon...
When he was 33 Arthur Stimson Draper was sent to London as chief of the New York Tribune's European bureaus. Result is that, at 52, Brooklyn-born Arthur Draper sports a Guards mustache, fancies burly tweeds, puffs a briar pipe, boasts a son educated at Cambridge and is a firm believer in Tradition. Consequently his colleagues on the Herald Tribune, to which he had returned as assistant editor, were somewhat surprised when in 1933 Mr. Draper took over the editorship of The Literary Digest with the announcement: "Its columns offer unusual opportunities at this time of profound change...
...amiable overtures (chiefly initiated by Japan) to make U. S. and Japanese citizens like each other more & more, to turn the black tides of circumstance which have made them like each other less & less ever since Japan bolted into Manchuria in spite of Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson's ineffectual "Whoa...