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...notice you often refer to certain people as being "well-born," "blue-blooded," and so on. For instance, in one sentence you speak of ". . . Host Stimson, the well-born Manhattan lawyer . . . and Undersecretary Phillips, the Boston blueblood. . . ." [TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 30, 1935 | 12/30/1935 | See Source »

Perhaps what you mean by "wellborn" is "money-in-the-family-for-the-last-three-or-m o r e-generations." If so, Stimson and Phillips and the King of England and the Duke of Duluth are wellborn, and I'm not. But as far as genes and chromosomes are concerned, I rise to announce that I'm just as well-born as any person you've ever mentioned in your excellent magazine. With the possible exception, of course, of Jesus Christ, and the Virgin Mary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 30, 1935 | 12/30/1935 | See Source »

...spite of a good sense of humor, he is so cautious and deliberate in his choice of words that he supplies his small world with few bons mots. Iron Man. Occasionally on a sunny afternoon passersby before Woodley, the Washington estate of onetime Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson, see a curious sight. On the lawn Host Stimson, the well-born Manhattan

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Professionals to London | 12/9/1935 | See Source »

...this meant anything, it meant that the President was on the fence and to get him off became the surprising ambition last week of Mr. Hull's predecessor, Republican onetime Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson. Lawyer Stimson's well-meant "Stimson Doctrine," which persuaded virtually all nations not to recognize Japan's puppet state of Manchukuo (TIME, March 7, 1932), led the Great Powers down the deadest dead-end street of latter day diplomacy and in that street they are still stalled. Last week ingenious Statesman Stimson, in an open letter to the Press, clarioned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: u. s.: Freedom of the Seas? | 10/21/1935 | See Source »

...Some "big" presbyterians: Steelmaster Eugene Gifford Grace; Statesman Henry Lewis Stimson: Senator James Couzens; Lumberman Frederick Edward Weyerhaeuser; Will H. Hays; Andrew William Mellon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: When & When | 10/21/1935 | See Source »

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