Word: stimson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...literature," the Century selects members on the basis of cultural superiority. Its atmosphere of wealthy exclusiveness is matched only by its reputation for eminent respectability. Famed among its members are Herbert Clark Hoover, John Pierpont Morgan, George Woodward Wickersham, William Howard Taft, John William Davis, Henry Lewis Stimson. Cornelius Vanderbilt, Thomas William Lamont, Dwight Whitney Morrow, Owen D. Young, Elihu Root, Nicholas Murray Butler, Bishop William Thomas Manning...
...kneel down in front of me," commanded Statesman Stimson, at the same time bringing a camera into focus. "Kneel down, and while you take a picture of me I shall take a picture of you in that position...
Spoofy though all this sounded, it was fact: Clown Rogers had lunched and dined at the embassy, had sat with Mrs. Morrow and Mrs. Stimson, is accorded large license everywhere at the conference. One Rogersgram announced that the conference had spent "one solid week of doing nothing but attempting to pronounce the Japanese delegate Wakatsuki's name. Next week the agenda calls for the pronunciation of the Frenchmen's names...
Poupette Gautier, chic unmarried personal secretary to Prime Minister André Tardieu, showed pique at the acclaim London papers continued to bestow on Statesman Stimson's "beauty chorus of typists." "Well, we French typists haven't any fur coats like the wonderful Americans," said Poupette, "but we came here to type reports and we shall type reports. One might think to read the papers that this was a style show...
Appointed. Dean Dorothy Stimson of Goucher College (Baltimore), cousin of Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson; to be acting president of the institution, a post left vacant by the death of acting President Hans Froelicher (TIME...