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When he was 33 Arthur Stimson Draper was sent to London as chief of the New York Tribune's European bureaus. Result is that, at 52, Brooklyn-born Arthur Draper sports a Guards mustache, fancies burly tweeds, puffs a briar pipe, boasts a son educated at Cambridge and is a firm believer in Tradition. Consequently his colleagues on the Herald Tribune, to which he had returned as assistant editor, were somewhat surprised when in 1933 Mr. Draper took over the editorship of The Literary Digest with the announcement: "Its columns offer unusual opportunities at this time of profound change...
...amiable overtures (chiefly initiated by Japan) to make U. S. and Japanese citizens like each other more & more, to turn the black tides of circumstance which have made them like each other less & less ever since Japan bolted into Manchuria in spite of Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson's ineffectual "Whoa...
...kept his eyes & ears wide open. On the crucial Chinese Eastern Railway he rode impartially in the private cars of Chinese officials, Russian officials, Japanese bankers. When Japan finally turned from scheming to shooting he was ready. Without waiting for instructions he swung through the trouble area, let Secretary Stimson act on first-hand facts instead of garbled press reports...
Elihu Root was 54. at the top of his profession and the hero of such bright young Republicans as Nicholas Murray Butler. Henry Lewis Stimson, Robert Low Bacon, when in 1899 President McKinley let it be known that he wanted a first-rank lawyer for Secretary of War. Someone was needed who could plan and plead reorganization in the slipshod War Department, set up administrations for the colonies newly-won from Spain. Appointed, Lawyer Root did both jobs brilliantly. He stayed on with Theodore Roosevelt and, when John Hay died, he became one of the ablest Secretaries of State...
...noncriminal drug addicts. Miss Dorothy Frooks of Peekskill, N. Y., denounced the exploitation of ball games and cinemas in penitentiaries lest "the prisons hold out a welcoming hand to the youth of the nation." Republican Hurley: "Such work as the extermination of crime should not be partisan." Republican Stimson: "It is not unnatural for the boys of a country which has recently lost its frontier to be excited and stimulated by tales of danger and thrilling adventure. But it is certainly all wrong for such a spirit to be fanned up artificially by the engines of a sensational Press...