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...literature," the Century selects members on the basis of cultural superiority. Its atmosphere of wealthy exclusiveness is matched only by its reputation for eminent respectability. Famed among its members are Herbert Clark Hoover, John Pierpont Morgan, George Woodward Wickersham, William Howard Taft, John William Davis, Henry Lewis Stimson. Cornelius Vanderbilt, Thomas William Lamont, Dwight Whitney Morrow, Owen D. Young, Elihu Root, Nicholas Murray Butler, Bishop William Thomas Manning...
...kneel down in front of me," commanded Statesman Stimson, at the same time bringing a camera into focus. "Kneel down, and while you take a picture of me I shall take a picture of you in that position...
Correspondents were told that Negative Stimson would soon follow the lead of Positive Tardieu by laying down a similar hand for the U. S. when enough cards are on the table there can begin, not the game, but a shuffle and first deal. "Pertinax" (Andre Geraud), pungent correspondent of L'Echo de Paris, wired to his paper: "Secretary Stimson was overheard to re-mark : 1 wish this conference would waste a good deal more time...
...Chequers Court, rushing them on a sightseeing tour round Buckinghamshire. Delegates and prime minister visited Milton's cottage at Chalfont St. Giles; the graves of William Penn and Edmund ("on conciliation with America") Burke; Hughenden. country home of the great Jew Benjamin Disraeli. Said U. S. Secretary of State Stimson: "One of the most interesting days of my life. ... To me all this is sacred ground...
Appointed. Dean Dorothy Stimson of Goucher College (Baltimore), cousin of Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson; to be acting president of the institution, a post left vacant by the death of acting President Hans Froelicher (TIME...