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Princeton University Astronomer Harlow Shapley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sc.D. Historian James Truslow Adams (The Epic of America) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Litt.D. Author Andre Maurois . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Litt.D. Herbert Putnam, director of the Library of Congress . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Litt.D. Samuel Seabury . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LL.D. Henry Lewis Stimson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .LL.D...
Frankfurter. It was good Republican Henry Lewis Stimson, Secretary of War under President Taft, who first took Felix Frankfurter to Washington. As a U. S. attorney Lawyer Stimson had been vastly impressed with his ruddy, nervous little assistant who still had an accent when he came to him shortly after graduation from the Harvard Law School in 1906. Felix Frankfurter stayed long enough in Washington to gain the respect of President Wilson (who called him from Harvard in 1918 to head the War Labor Policies Board) and, more important, the lasting friendship of Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin Delano...
...William Seaver Woods, minister's son, onetime editor of the Wesleyan Literary Monthly, became editor of the Literary Digest. In the same year Arthur Stimson Draper was graduated from New York University, where he had been campus correspondent for the New York Tribune. Mr. Draper put aside his engineer's degree, went downtown and to work as a Tribune cub. For the next 28 years Editor Woods and Newshawk Draper served their respective publications. Last week Editor Woods, 60, erudite, kindly, somewhat deaf, resigned from the Literary Digest, planned to travel, write books; and Arthur Draper, 50, quit...
Secretary Hughes was the isolation statesman. Secretary Kellogg stood for academic peace. Secretary Stimson was the moral force man. Secretary Hull has a chance to go dowrn in U. S. diplomatic history as the world economist...
...last year's Chicago convention Cordell Hull wrote his own Washington orders-the party platform planks on tariff and foreign affairs. The President remains the final executor of these orders and his Secretary of State, a lawyer by trade and training, functions as an obedient attorney of the Stimson type. But planted deep within the silent Hull ego is an attachment to the principles at stake that is older and deeper than President Roosevelt's, and a tenacity which may outlast that of the White House should the latter weaken...