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Died. Mabel Wellington White Stimson, 89, widow of Henry L. Stimson, four-time Cabinet member under Presidents Taft (1911-13), Hoover (1929-33), Roosevelt and Truman (1940-45); in Huntington...
...EDITH D. STIMSON New York City...
...continue both the foreign and the domestic policies of the Roosevelt Administration. I made it clear, however, that I would be President in my own right, and that I would assume full responsibility for such decisions as had to be made." After the Cabinet meeting, Secretary of War Henry Stimson lingered behind. "[He] told me that he wanted me to know about an immense project that was under way -a project looking to the development of a new explosive of almost unbelievable destructive power. That was all he felt free to say at the time, and his statement left...
...glimpse of the might-have-been at Yalta was given by a letter to General George Marshall from Major General John R. Deane, head of the U.S. military mission to Moscow from 1943 to 1945. A month before the Yalta Conference, Secretary of War Henry Stimson forwarded the Deane letter to President Roosevelt. If, as Stimson probably hoped, Deane's conclusions had guided U.S. representatives at Yalta, the conference results might have been far different...
...Fellows--teach here in one capacity or another. Among them are professors Bate, Howard, Homans, Ingalls, Kelleher, Levin, Loomis, McKay Pound and Schlesinger, Jr. Dean Bundy, now an ex-officio member of the Senior Fellows, was also a Junior Fellow and in 1948 published a book on Henry L. Stimson's war service...