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...both parties in his State, and will be the third New York member of the nation's highest tribunal. The others are Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes and Associate Justice Harlan Fiske Stone.* The fact that the Hoover political family also contains two other New Yorkers, Secretaries Stimson and Mills, added to the apprehension of Judge Cardozo's friends lest he be deprived of the post. He has been mentioned for every vacancy that has occurred in the Supreme Court for years...
Here are a number of celebrities from all important countries except the Orient. The important U. S. figures are all there, from the young Lindbergh to the venerable Holmes, with such curious exceptions as Henry Ford and Henry Lewis Stimson. The European gallery lacks Spain's recent Alfonso, England's George and in fact all other royalty...
...know," he continued glancing at an evening paper lying on his dressing poem table in the Colonial Theatre, "this man Stimson always seems to be frowning at something: first it's France, then Mexico, and now he gets in a long distance frown at Japan. If he keeps on frowning pretty soon his mustache will join forces with his hair and he will enter the Boston Dog Show as an English sheepdog...
...Instead, he retired to a nursing home to be operated on for what his doctors called "a slight and progressive diminution of the vision of the left eye," and the precise press called glaucoma (hardening of the eyeball). His King, Chancellor Bruning, Secretary of State Stimson, Premier Mussolini all sent telegrams of sympathy. The delicate operation, performed by Dr. William Stewart Duke-Elder, was successful. Prime Minister MacDonald planned to return to work in ten days, visit the Disarmament Conference in his own good time...
...Under Secretary of State. Claude Augustus Swanson, Senator from Virginia, and Mary Emma Woolley. president of Mount Holyoke College. They were called "the best practical pacifists available." Mr. Dawes resigned as a delegate to become president of Reconstruction Finance Corp. and President Hoover replaced him with Secretary of State Stimson as chairman of the delegation...