Word: stimson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clock Wednesday afternoon the President and the Prime Minister bade their official farewells. That evening, unofficially, they disported together at a stag dinner given by Secretary of State Stimson. Contrary to precedent is it for U. S. presidents to accept informal social invitations, but President Hoover, to make a final friendly gesture, flouted the ceremonious rule...
...Payne-Aldrich Tariff of 1909 free sugar imports from the Islands were limited to 300,000 tons yearly. Later this restriction was removed. During hearings on the present tariff bill an attempt was made to restore it. This movement was blocked through the influence of Secretary of State Stimson, who, a onetime (1927-29) Philippine governor, said that a tax on Philippine sugar would ruin the Islands. The sugar Senators, arguing chiefly to impress their sugar-growing constituents, assumed that if the Filipinos were made a free people as they have so long agitated to be, it would not bother...
...Stimson's Stag. Spacious Woodley, home of Secretary of State Stimson, was the last place where Prime Minister clasped hands with President. Two hours previously they had formally farewelled at the White House, but Mr. Hoover slipped over to his Secretary's stag dinner. No socialites were present as such. Most of the stags were potent Congressmen and Senators of both parties, including Senatorial floor leaders Robinson (Dem.) and Watson (Rep.). Sound meat for conversation was a joint declaration issued earlier in the day by Stags Hoover and MacDonald, momentously summing the results of their conversations...
Return. As he left Washington in the private car of President Daniel Willard of the Baltimore & Ohio R. R., the tall and visibly tired Scot said to Statesman Stimson: "I wish I could stay longer." Five minutes at Baltimore were spent acknowledging cheers, receiving two engrossed scrolls which conferred honorary membership in the Maryland Academy of Sciences, the socialite St. Andrews Society...
...situation which had held up Mr. Guggenheim's confirmation while Secretary of State Stimson hurriedly consulted with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee resulted partly from an anti-Machado resolution received by the Senate and partly from a series of suits for damages brought against the Cuban government by U. S. citizens. High were the crimes and misdemeanors of "El Gallo" as recited by the aggrieved petitioners. He had violated the Cuban constitution. He had illegally manipulated the rich national lottery. His administration had been guilty of extravagance, fraud, political coercion, assassination. Furthermore, he had trampled upon the rights...