Word: stoddard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Archibald MacLeish, poet and ex-Librarian of Congress; George D. Stoddard, president of the University of Illinois; Arthur H. Compton, chancellor of Washington University (St. Louis); Anne O'Hare McCormick of the New York Times. Alternates: Chester Bowles, ex-OPA Administrator; Milton Eisenhower, president of Kansas State College; Charles S. Johnson, president-elect of Fisk University (see below); George N. Shuster, president of Hunter College; Anna Rosenberg of OWMR...
...real power in the Federal Reserve was still its astute, millionaire chairman, Marriner Stoddard Eccles. He showed this by quickly slapping down Jake Vardaman three days after he had brought his good cheer to the Morris Planners. At a New England bank management conference in Boston, Eccles said bluntly: "It can hardly be contended, with reason, that the credit gates should be opened now," though single payment loans, charge accounts, soft goods and minor durable goods might soon be freed from restrictions. But major durable goods, accounting for "the great dollar bulk of consumer credit," said Chairman Eccles, would remain...
...little later, over tea and cakes, it was the Japs who were surprised when Stoddard thought to ask Hirohito's master of ceremonies Hidenari Terasaki whether the Emperor wanted a man or woman tutor. (Jap princes are traditionally removed from feminine influence, even their own mother's, at an early age.) Says Stoddard: "Terasaki thumped his teacup down on the mahogany table, really baffled. When he returned after consulting Hirohito, he said the Emperor wanted a woman...
...teachers, hearing of the Emperor's offer (TIME, April 8), had applied for the job. Mrs. Vining was not one of them. The American Friends Service Committee told her it was a chance to serve the cause of peace, asked permission to suggest her name to Dr. Stoddard. Says she: "I did not see how I could refuse." Stoddard proposed two names, Mrs. Vining's and that of a teacher in Hawaii. Mrs. Vining...
...Anna. The Emperor had ruled out ex-WAVES, WACs and officers' wives. He also wanted no zealous young reformers, preferred "a mature person of 50 years or more." But Stoddard told him: "Many good teachers in the U.S. are much less old than that." Brunette, fortyish Mrs. Vining, already tired of newspaper comparisons to Anna and the King of Siam, says she is "considerably older than Anna was [28], but younger than the Emperor had in mind...