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Twenty-one years ago a robust Sergeant in Squadron A, New York City National Guard, was riding through Rock Creek Park, Washington, D. C. Suddenly he heard the familiar voice of Elihu Root, then Secretary of State, saying: "By order of the Secretary of War, Sergeant Stimson will report at once, in person, to the President of the United States." On the other side of Rock Creek he saw Secretary Root and President Roosevelt. Plunging into the rain-swollen, swift-flowing stream, he urged his horse across, arrived wet, triumphant. His summons was merely a Rooseveltian method of inviting...
...onetime Sergeant Stimson crosses another stream at the invitation of another U. S. President. This time it is the Gulf Stream, for last week Mr. Stimson packed his grip and left Manhattan for Nicaragua, where he travels as special representative of President Coolidge. He may interview among others Revolutionary Leader Sacasa; after a month will return to make reports, recommendations. Republicans hope that, through his intervention, the marines may be withdrawn from Nicaragua before their presence can be made an issue in the 1928 presidential campaign...
...chorus girls whose terpsichorean ability is improving daily are: E. D. Cole '27, D. F. Harding '27, David Whiting '29, J. C. Sprague 3ES. J. B. Parker '29, L B.H. Sparrow 3ES, C. B. del Solar '29, E. S. Stimson '27, Norman McDonald '28, L. M. McTurnan '28, Moses Ellis '28, G. O. Russell '27, A. W. Lind '29, Humphrey Statler '29, W. W. McAdams '29 and M. A. Jensen...
...only to have their works promptly frowned upon by the voters. Time, however, was kinder to them; now their major recommendations have become laws. Last week they celebrated these facts at a reunion dinner in Manhattan. Elihu Root, who presided at the 1915 convention, Charles E. Hughes, Henry L. Stimson, Alfred E. Smith and nearly a hundred others were there...
Meanwhile, last week, able law, yer Henry Lewis Stimson wrote to Mr. Guthrie that he could convince him of the truth of Mr. Taft's onetime statement by a ten-minute trip through the Criminal Courts, Building in Manhattan...