Word: stimson
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...Stimson and Knox. In New Haven one night last week Henry Stimson, Secretary of War under President Taft. Secretary of State under Herbert Hoover, laid down a line for U. S. foreign policy and defense: military conscription, shipments of planes and munitions to Great Britain, the use of the U. S. Navy to convoy shipments if necessary. It was an effective speech...
...Next day the Senate clerk read out the names of President Roosevelt's two nominations for his Cabinet-for Secretary of the Navy: William Franklin Knox of Chicago. Republican Vice-Presidential candidate in 1936, supporter of the President's foreign policy; for Secretary of War: Henry Lewis Stimson...
When the suit went to trial Judge Rosenman looked down on as potent a battery of lawyers as ever appeared in one court: famed Elder Statesman Henry Lewis Stimson for the Blausteins, ex-Presidential Nominee John W. Davis for Standard of New Jersey, Chief Justice Hughes's onetime law partner Ralph Scott Harris for Standard of Indiana, and others. For 70 trial days and 10,361 pages, the testimony rolled in. Then Sam Rosen man sat down to think it out. His decision, wrapped up in 182 pages: Standard of New Jersey was not liable; but Standard of Indiana...
...committee was formed at the beginning of last week consisting of men prominent in business, politics, journalism, and education. It includes Henry L. Stimson, Republican Secretary of State, and William Y. Elliott, professor of Government, who has been prominent as an interventionist on the campus...
...President (Taft) was a Bones man. Among living Bones men are Presidential Candidate Robert A. Taft, Republican Leader Kenneth Simpson, Banker Percy Rockefeller, onetime Pennsylvania Governor Gifford Pinchot. onetime Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson, Author Donald Ogden Stewart, Radio Singer Lanny Ross, Yale's President Charles Seymour. Not strictly accurate is the legend that a Bones man is never without a job, but a Bones man on his uppers often gets handouts from fellow Bones men or the society. Skull & Bones (corporate name: Russell Trust Association) is sometimes alleged to be Connecticut's second richest corporation (first...