Word: stimson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...discontent sunk deep in the electorate at large. The last week of the Republican campaign was much like the first-only hotter. Every member of the Cabinet except Attorney General Mitchell (a nominal Democrat) had done his bit and more for the President. At Dayton Secretary of State Stimson proclaimed President Hoover "a real fighting Quaker, thoroughly aroused, smashing down his opponents' positions one by one with irresistible logic." Secretary of the Treasury Mills had worn his voice down to a hoarse croak. Secretary of Agriculture Hyde, unable to restrain his language longer, blurted out that Governor Roosevelt...
...dollars of foreign securities "now practically worthless" were dumped on the U. S. market. The State Department "without sanction of law" usurped the function of passing on these loans and was therefore "implicated" in the disaster. When the Senate unanimously ordered it to desist as financial censor, Secretary Stimson brushed aside the order "with a contempt that entitled him to impeachment." Declared Senator Glass...
...League of Nations survives the next few years, the United States will be compelled to join," said W. Y. Elliott, professor of government, in an interview yesterday with a CRIMSON reporter. "It is rather clear that our position on the Stimson doctrine of non-recognition of Manchukuo, the retention of our consuls here, and the "Open Door" policy is apt to get us into difficulties, which would have been less troublesome, if we had been a member of the League...
...Secretary Tumulty President Wilson expressed his belief in a parliamentary form of government which, in a crisis, falls as soon as it has lost popular support. Up to this week no Republican had yet suggested that in the event of party defeat President Hoover replace Secretary of State Stimson with Governor Roosevelt and then, with Vice President Curtis, resign...
...That "the United States should grant those guarantees of security which she herself has envisioned." This was understood to be a reference by M. Herriot to Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson's recent Manhattan speech in which he said: "Consultation between the signatories of the [Kellogg-Briand] Pact, when faced with the threat of its violation, becomes inevitable." Seemingly the Chamber thought that M. Herriot should get from the U. S. at least a promise to consult and also, if possible, a promise to take armed action against an aggressor state. Next day the State Department told Premier...