Word: stimson
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...League colleges, and often, before that, to boarding schools in New England. They belonged to the same clubs, lived in the same suburbs and vacationed at the same resorts. They dressed, spoke and looked a certain way. They were of English or Scotch-Irish stock. Exemplified by Henry Stimson, who served as both Secretary of State and Secretary of War, they were publicity-averse men who were more powerful than famous. A sociologist who was very much a born-in member of this class, E. Digby Baltzell, bestowed two resonant names on its members: white Anglo-Saxon Protestants (Wasps...