Word: stimson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...kept his eyes & ears wide open. On the crucial Chinese Eastern Railway he rode impartially in the private cars of Chinese officials, Russian officials, Japanese bankers. When Japan finally turned from scheming to shooting he was ready. Without waiting for instructions he swung through the trouble area, let Secretary Stimson act on first-hand facts instead of garbled press reports...
Elihu Root was 54. at the top of his profession and the hero of such bright young Republicans as Nicholas Murray Butler. Henry Lewis Stimson, Robert Low Bacon, when in 1899 President McKinley let it be known that he wanted a first-rank lawyer for Secretary of War. Someone was needed who could plan and plead reorganization in the slipshod War Department, set up administrations for the colonies newly-won from Spain. Appointed, Lawyer Root did both jobs brilliantly. He stayed on with Theodore Roosevelt and, when John Hay died, he became one of the ablest Secretaries of State...
...different. When President Roosevelt rose to address the opening session he found himself speaking not only to an audience of Democratic prosecutors, police chiefs and social workers, but to such tail-coated Republicans as onetime Secretary of War Patrick J. Hurley and onetime Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson. Like other Presidents before him, Mr. Roosevelt cried for national cooperation in a national war against the underworld, declared: "Crime is a symptom of social disorder. Widespread increase in capacity to substitute order for disorder is the remedy...
...noncriminal drug addicts. Miss Dorothy Frooks of Peekskill, N. Y., denounced the exploitation of ball games and cinemas in penitentiaries lest "the prisons hold out a welcoming hand to the youth of the nation." Republican Hurley: "Such work as the extermination of crime should not be partisan." Republican Stimson: "It is not unnatural for the boys of a country which has recently lost its frontier to be excited and stimulated by tales of danger and thrilling adventure. But it is certainly all wrong for such a spirit to be fanned up artificially by the engines of a sensational Press...
...peace seemed the last thing the New Dealers wanted to grant him. Mr. Hoover vanished from the scene to Palo Alto. Mr. Stimson went inconspicuously back to his Manhattan law practice. Mr. Wilbur once more became active president of Leland Stanford. All the Hoover Cabinet was politically forgotten-except Mr. Mellon. For years the Democrats had yipped about his administration of the Treasury...