Word: stimson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ramsay MacDonald and the historic handshake of the trip took place. Mr. MacDonald introduced his daughter, apple-cheeked Ishbel. In the Red Room, Mrs. Hoover was waiting. President Hoover took his callers to her. Mrs. Hoover, Ishbel and Lady Isabella Howard at once began to chat, joined by Statesman Stimson. President and Prime Minister stood apart, talking earnestly for twelve minutes. Keynote No. 2. Back at the British Embassy some 30 minutes later, the Prime Minister received about 200 newsgatherers. "All that I put in a plea for is that disagreement never be aggravated by misunderstanding," he said. "Neither your...
...telling Secretary Akerson that the autumn foliage in the mountains was brilliant, beautiful; that the Rapidan River was in spate from the autumn rains. Hoover-MacDonald actions over the weekend. Three-hour motor ride to camp. After dinner, the President, the Prime Minister and Secretary of State Stimson sat in front of the fire in the living room of the President's cabin and talked "for hours." Sunday breakfast was at 8 o'clock. A Marine corps airplane dropped the Sunday newspapers. President and Prime Minister talked on the porch until 11, then the thalassocrats (chiefs...
...definitely known that Britain's white-headed Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald would sail for the U. S. on Sept. 28 to confer personally on naval reductions with President Hoover. This milestone in the Hoover administration was soon followed by its bigger, better corollary: Secretary of State Stimson was enabled to announce that the details remaining for the Messrs. Hoover and MacDonald to discuss are so few, so sure of settlement, that the U. S. and England will be ready to appear together at a naval conference of the five Sea Powers in December, this to be followed...
Actually Secretary Stimson's goat, the one attributed to him, which followed him from the Philippines, is in the White House stable. He, "Master William Hamilton Bones," in the care of Private John Hale, U. S. A., is reported to chew the blackest plug tobacco, which accounts for the brownness of his whiskers, to eat the horse's hay, to sit up on his haunches and "speak" in goatish gutturals...
Repeatedly Mr. MacDonald told correspondents last week that he expected shortly to announce complete agreement with Ambassador Dawes, but in Washington the Administration distinctly cooled, and Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson snappishly observed: "It will still require a considerable period of hard work before an agreement ... is reached." An impression lingered that the Prime Minister had embarrassed the President by flaunting the fact that at the Five-Power Naval Conference (of which Mr. Hoover approves) it may happen that the whole Anglo-U. S. naval accord will be thrown into just the sort of European squabbling-pot so distasteful...