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Among The Crimson and Magenta men of the first ten years were such easily recognizable names as Owen Wister '83 the novelist, Josiah Quincy '80, the future Mayor of Boston, Barrett Wendell '77, the legendary Harvard professor, and Frederic Jessup Stimson '76, Wilson's Ambassador to Argentina, who is most remembered today as the author of the early Harvard novel Rollos's Journey to Cambridge...
...members: Co-Chairmen Lucy Wilson Benson, president, League of Women Voters, and C. Donald Peterson, associate justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court; Barry Bingham Sr., chairman, the Louisville Courier Journal; Stimson Bullitt, president, King Broadcasting Company (Seattle); Hodding Carter III, editor, the Delta Democrat Times (Greenville, Miss.); Robert Chandler, editor, the Bulletin (Bend, Ore.); Ithiel de Sola Pool, professor of political science, M.I.T.; Hartford N. Gunn Jr., president, Public Broadcasting System; Richard Harwood, assistant managing editor, the Washington Post; Louis Martin, editor, the Chicago Defender; John B. Oakes, editorial page editor, the New York Times; Paul Reardon, associate justice, Massachusetts...
...From the Cold), once observed that the West does not believe in "eating people" and yet is forced to defend this very principle by using individuals as "ammunition." In the U.S., espionage was grossly neglected until the advent of the cold war. In 1928, Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson was shocked to learn that the State Department had a cryptographic bureau. He fired the founder of the code-breaking agency, observing: "Gentlemen do not read other people's mail." But since then, the U.S. has overcome these and other scruples; it has learned a great many lessons from...
...weeks before the critical test at Alamogordo, the Interim Committee, charged with advising the President on the Bomb and atomic energy, met in a two-day session. The committee -chaired by War Secretary Henry Stimson and including Scientists Vannevar Bush, Karl T. Compton and James B. Conant-recommended that the Bomb should be used against Japan as soon as possible. The objective, they also recommended, should be a "dual target," a military or industrial site surrounded by more lightly constructed buildings. The attack should come by surprise. The argument was that the U.S. must exhibit its new power spectacularly...
...Milton Katz '27, Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law, said, "I regret the nomination as falling below the standards that seem to me generally appropriate to the Supreme Court of the United States and especially important to maintain at the present time...