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This did not sit well with Dolly and brother Charles. As the Vice President's hostess, they insisted, Dolly was entitled to the same social precedence as a Vice President's wife. To settle the point, brother Charles asked for a decision from Secretary of State Henry Stimson. (Stimson's predecessor, Frank Kellogg, had irritated Curtis by ruling against Dolly.) After a chat with President Hoover, canny Henry Stimson ruled that the matter would have to be decided by the diplomatic corps. In a plenary session at the British Embassy, the harried diplomats gave...
McCloy's work on German sabotage gained him an intimate knowledge of Germany, Germans and espionage, which caused Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson to make him an assistant in 1941. Among other tasks in that job, McCloy helped write the Lend-Lease bill, opposed the ill-conceived "Morgenthau Plan" to de-industrialize Germany, served as chairman of the State-War-Navy Coordinating Committee. Stimson wrote of him: "So varied were his labors and so catholic his interests that they defy summary . . . His energy was enormous, and his optimism almost unquenchable...
...SECRETARY OF STATE: 1) John J. Mc-Cloy, ex-U.S. High Commissioner for Germany and old Ike friend from the days when McCloy was Assistant Secretary of War under Henry Stimson; 2) New York's Governor Tom Dewey (who may prefer to serve out his term in Albany) ; 3) Statesman John Foster Dulles, one of Eisenhower's foreign-policy advisers during the campaign; 4) ex-ECAdministrator Paul Hoffman...
...Stevenson refreshen the Fair Deal? Democrats of course say he can; Republicans of course say he can't. Wrote Harvard Professor McGeorge Bundy, collaborator on Henry Stimson's autobiography and editor of Secretary Acheson's papers, in the October Foreign Affairs: "Fatigue-and stalemate beset the groups on which Stevenson must rely. However much he himself may be a symbol of refreshing change, his party, and even his part of his party, are symbols of the status quo. Except where, it has had Republican help, the Administration has been stalemated for several years, both at home & abroad...
...first place, from 10% to 30% of suspected cases admitted to hospitals turn out not to have polio at all. And even in confirmed cases, says Dr. Stimson, home care at first is often better because the patient is saved fatigue, excitement and excessive handling. These, in the early stages, can aggravate the disease. Since most patients are children, a mother's care is best, anyway, and there is a further advantage in having the regular family doctor remain in charge, though he may want to call in a specialist for help. Finally, home care of the milder, nonparalytic...