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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wrong though their conclusion was, it served to bring a White House statement: President Hoover had appointed Mr. Page to the U. S. advisory delegation attending the five-power naval parley in London in January. He would serve as personal aide to his great & good friend Statesman Henry Lewis Stimson. Born at Aberdeen, N. C., 46 years ago and brought up in the manner of a Southern gentleman, Advisor Page is, true to family tradition, a Democrat, though he voted for Herbert Hoover last year. A vice president of American Telephone & Telegraph Co. in charge of public relations, he plays...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Johnson, Page, Phillips | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

...Stimson's Studies. Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson completed a three-week "instruction course" which qualified him as a naval expert for the London conference. His teachers, admirals of the Navy's General Board, called one after another at his office to give lessons in naval equipment, strategy, statistics. It was announced that as a lover of peace, not as a pacifist, would Statesman Stimson lead the U. S. delegation to London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Parley Preparations | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

State Department attaches had long been wondering whether any complaint would be made to Ambassador Dawes about the excessive costliness of his cable messages from London. On diplomatic business the Ambassador has been anything but brief and $400 messages from him to Washington have not been rare. If Statesman Stimson had any intention of suggesting that Ambassador Dawes economize on cable tolls, he put it aside when the Ambassador, all geniality, asked him to put up at the U. S. embassy during the London conference. Arm-in-arm they went off to Woodley, the Stimson estate, for luncheon. Secretary Stimson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Parley Preparations | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

Reelected. Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson; as chairman of the Pan-American Union; at Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Nov. 18, 1929 | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

...safe side, Brother Herman telegraphed Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson who urgently cabled the U. S. Legation at Peking. In Tientsin a third Brenner Brother, Joseph, soon received from bandit hands a letter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Away on a Party | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

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