WHEN Tess Stimson and her husband Erik were invited to join a couple in a luxury villa in Portugal this autumn, their answer ...

The president’s most important job, as the sole steward of America’s nuclear arsenal, is to prevent nuclear war. And a ...

Barbara Scollin, grandniece of Major Gen. Kenneth D. Nichols continues her series on his life.

Founded in 1942 by Secretary of War Henry Stimson and Army Chief of Staff Gen. George Marshall, the program has distributed more than $2 billion to 4 million soldiers since its inception ...

All became presidents or almost reached the presidency. In contemporary times, secretaries of state included Henry Stimson, George Marshall, Dean Acheson, Henry Kissinger, Colin Powell, and John ...

She is survived by son, Henry Stimson of Altadena; six grandchildren; and ten great grandchildren. Celebrations of Nancy’s life will take place at private family events in Pasadena and Maine.

Nancy Rounds Stimson died peacefully in Pasadena on March 29, 2025. She lived a full and active life and died several weeks before her 97th birthday. She was a world traveler, a successful real est… ...

Nancy was pre-deceased by husbands, Charles Stimson and Theodore Chester, sister Barbara Carson, daughter Mary McNamara and son Michael Stimson. She is survived by son, Henry Stimson of Altadena; six ...

As Secretary of State Henry Stimson once put it, “Gentlemen do not read other gentlemen’s mail.” That may overstate it in the context of intelligence gathering, but it is generally a good ...

Thus, it was in 1932, after Japan had attacked Manchuria, that secretary of state Henry Stimson formulated the doctrine that the United States would not recognise “any situation, treaty or ...

BIRD: Henry Stimson was his Secretary of War, and Stimson established a project to explore this notion. And he appointed a, a general, Leslie Groves, who had just finished building the Pentagon.

Merit, not the usual patronage concerns, drove Mr. Stimson’s recruitment of young lawyers, including Felix Frankfurter and Emory Buckner, who would become an esteemed leader of the office.