Word: secretariat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cheerily independent, President Roosevelt queried Secretary Hull as to whether a ten-day recess of the Conference might do some good. By this time Conference stenographers and pages had been warned by the Secretariat that their jobs might not outlast the week. Mr. Hull made clear that a brief adjournment would not do. The Conference must either close up tight or go definitely on. The President, still without consulting his Brain Trust, began to draft in the White House a second message to the Conference. Amid his labors he called up Secretary Hull for an extra secret talk. In London...
Piqued, the Conference Secretariat produced a letter signed by Chief U. S. Delegate Cordell Hull apparently authorizing the 10% tariff slash proposal. Faced with this, Senator Pittman insisted that it was "unofficial." To a Dutchman a signature is final. Chairman Colijn told the Economic Committee that the U. S. proposal had been made, left the entire Conference up in the air as to what Washington's tariff policy might...
...motored to the Capitol on March 4 for the inaugural of his successor, President Hoover turned anxiously to Franklin Roosevelt with a personal patronage problem. It had to do with Walter Hughes Newton of the White House secretariat. Born & bred in Minneapolis, Mr. Newton had been elected in 1918 to the House where by his wits he had worked himself up to a position of Republican importance. When Mr. Hoover took office in 1929, he felt the need for better contacts with the House leadership, persuaded Representative Newton to resign his seat and join the White House staff...
...Assistant Secretary of the Interior; Alexander Wilbourne Weddell of Virginia, former career diplomat, to be Ambassador to Argentina. ¶ Few reports have excited Washington so much as last week's to the effect that President Roosevelt might attend the London Economic Conference next month. The White House secretariat pooh-poohed the story, and the President discouraged it by reciting his summer plans to the Press: He would go to the graduation of his son John at Groton School in early June, receive an honorary degree at Rutgers later. Aboard the cruiser Indianapolis he would steam up the coast from...
...President Roosevelt will permit his secretariat and close advisers to write for publication. McNaught Syndicate last week announced that Assistant Secretary of State Raymond Moley, head of the "Brain Trust," would supply a weekly 800-word article entitled "'The State of The Nation...