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...Franklin Roosevelt, fresh from Columbia Law School, was a well-dressed young man in the offices of Carter, Ledyard & Milburn, he met Felix Frankfurter, who was the smart young trust-busting assistant of Roosevelt I's U. S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Henry L. Stimson...
Pole vault--Won by Rosenberger (H); tied for second, Martin (A), Stimson (A), Donohue (H). Height...
...Stimson on Ludlow. Alf Landon's complaint against Congress was due to the Ludlow Resolution (TIME, Dec. 27), a proposed amendment to the Constitution providing for declaration of war by national referendum rather than act of Congress. The Ludlow Resolution has almost no chance of passage anyway, but Henry L. Stimson, who succeeded Frank Kellogg as Secretary of State, came to aid his own embarrassed successor, Cordell Hull. Policies of the U. S. State Department change less with changing administrations than those of any other department. Secretary Stimson and Secretary Hull see almost eye to eye on many matters...
Following Secretary Hull's dignified official belittlement of that measure last fortnight, Mr. Stimson wrote a letter to the New York Times. In a masterly 4,000-word document, Statesman Stimson tore the Resolution to pieces as a device that would not only dangerously divide U. S. sentiment if there were a war but also would defeat its own purposes by so hobbling U. S. diplomacy that situations like the Panay bombing would be far more likely to lead to war than they are at present, Mr. Stimson's conclusion: "No more effective engine for the disruption...
...These figures include Manchuria, which the Great Powers still consider part of China under the "Stimson Doctrine/' although Japan considers it her puppet empire of Manchukuo...