Word: stimson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...know," he continued glancing at an evening paper lying on his dressing poem table in the Colonial Theatre, "this man Stimson always seems to be frowning at something: first it's France, then Mexico, and now he gets in a long distance frown at Japan. If he keeps on frowning pretty soon his mustache will join forces with his hair and he will enter the Boston Dog Show as an English sheepdog...
...Instead, he retired to a nursing home to be operated on for what his doctors called "a slight and progressive diminution of the vision of the left eye," and the precise press called glaucoma (hardening of the eyeball). His King, Chancellor Bruning, Secretary of State Stimson, Premier Mussolini all sent telegrams of sympathy. The delicate operation, performed by Dr. William Stewart Duke-Elder, was successful. Prime Minister MacDonald planned to return to work in ten days, visit the Disarmament Conference in his own good time...
...President began by sending the Senate at its request the entire diplomatic correspondence that had passed between Washington and Tokyo and Nanking since the original development of Sino-Japanese hostilities in Manchuria. Secretary Stimson's exchange of views with the British Government, through Ambassador Sir Ronald Lindsay, terminated in an agreement whereby the U. S. and Great Britain decided to work shoulder-to-shoulder in protecting their citizens in Shanghai. Secretary Stimson also asked Japan, through Ambassador William Cameron Forbes, to make clear its stand in using the International Settlement as a base for military operations against the native...
Emerging from a conference with Secretary Stimson, Admiral Pratt ordered the entire Asiatic fleet to prepare for China service. "Our fleet will be ready to evacuate our nationals or to protect them if a crisis arises where mob rule prevails." said he. A correspondent asked him what would happen if Japan did not favor the move. "That," said Admiral Pratt, "would be just...
...Under Secretary of State. Claude Augustus Swanson, Senator from Virginia, and Mary Emma Woolley. president of Mount Holyoke College. They were called "the best practical pacifists available." Mr. Dawes resigned as a delegate to become president of Reconstruction Finance Corp. and President Hoover replaced him with Secretary of State Stimson as chairman of the delegation...