Word: mr
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tonnage between categories; 3) retention of their full submarine strength of 71 ships (78,497 tons). Like good diplomats, they were ready to give in on demands No. 1 and 2 but on demand No. 3 all the persuasiveness of Statesman Stimson could not bridge them to compromise. Vainly Mr. Stimson tried to show them that submarines were useless against battleships, that they served only as weapons of uncivilized warfare against unarmed merchantmen. Possibly the Japanese interpreter failed to translate the full vigor of the Secretary's arguments; perhaps the Japanese delegates were really intent on holding their position...
...list. . . The public would be vastly reassured if the Secretary of the Navy should take part in conferences which may shape the future of the Navy. There is full confidence in Charles Francis Adams. . . . He is possessed of more knowledge regarding the Navy than any other delegate. When Mr. Stimson and Mr. Morrow enter into an exchange of naval views with such an expert as Admiral Takarabe it is not to be expected that the Americans could hold their...
What accounted for President Hoover's particular interest in this Congressional investigation was the manner in which his name had been bandied about by the Cuban Sugar Lobby, directed by Herbert Conrad Lakin. Lobbyist Lakin had hired as the Lobby's Lawyer Edwin Paul Shattuck, because Mr. Shattuck was a Hoover friend, had done legal work for the President, such as drawing leases. This connection Lobbyist Lakin had so magnified in widely scattered letters as to create the impression that President Hoover was cooperating with the sugar lobby. Excerpts from the letters of Lobbyist Lakin...
...President Hoover has instructed his Secretary, Mr. Newton, to establish a contact between the Committee [House Ways & Means] and ourselves. . . . We are a little doubtful about this step . . . but of course would do what President Hoover desires as he seems to be genuinely interested in our cause...
...President Hoover sent for Mr. Shattuck and suggested that Shattuck cooperate with the Ways & Means Committee...