Word: stimson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stroke of ill-luck, the one really pressing matter that came before the new Cabinet as soon as it was formed was a matter in the province of the one new Cabinet member who had not reached Washington?the new Secretary of State, Colonel Stimson. There was little doubt that the leaders of the Mexican revolt (see p. 27) timed their uprising in order to catch the new administration off its guard in hope that its support of the existent regime in Mexico would be weak...
...course Mr. Root did not come as the official representative of President Hoover, though he came from him. just as Statesman Stimson went to settle the Nicaraguan situation "from" President Coolidge. He had no title, no authority except a tacit understanding that he spoke for the President. Nowadays U.S. diplomacy is like that; and so last week plain "Mr." Root was greeted with as many courtesies by the League's Big Three* as though his title were "Special Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary? which it is in all but the capitalization, so far as Europe is concerned. Only...
...victory over her Cambridge rivals in the cabinet appointments," Harvard actually has two of her graduates in that body, C. F. Adams '88 being Secretary of the Navy and W. F. Brown '92 the Postmaster General. In addition, the new Secretary of State, H. L. Stimson, who was graduated from Yale College, studied at the Harvard Law School from 1888 to 1890, and received the degree of Master of Arts here...
District Attorney Stimson destroyed the sugar fraud ring, sent Charles W. Morse to the Atlanta penitentiary, extracted a $30,000 fine out of James Gordon Bennett for running immoral "Personal" advertisements in the old Herald. (Simultaneously the outgoing Secretary of State, Frank Billings Kellogg, was engaged in smashing the old Standard...
President Taft summoned District Attorney Stimson across the Hudson. Delaware, Schuylkill and Susquehanna Rivers, from Manhattan to Washington, to serve as Secretary of War. President Wilson commissioned him a colonel of artillery and sent him across the Atlantic to fight with the 77th Division. President Coolidge despatched him first, across the Caribbean to Nicaragua to patch up a peace between Diaz and Sacasa and later across the Pacific to be Governor General of the Philippines. President Hoover recalled him to sit at his right hand at the Cabinet table...