Word: stimson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...selection of the delegates continued to cause President Hoover a good deal of trouble. Circumstances severely limited his choice of members. The Geneva conference would last seven or eight months; Secretary of State Stimson did not wish to be away from his office so long. Dwight Whitney Morrow, ablest of U. S. conference negotiators, was dead. Elder Statesman Elihu Root was too old and fragile for the job. Charles Evans Hughes was out of reach on the Supreme Court. Henry Prather Fletcher, shrewd diplomat, refused to serve unless, it was reported, he was made chairman of the delegation. No less...
July: M. Laval signed the Moratorium Accord after negotiations at the French Foreign Office with Statesman Stimson and Secretary Mellon, "to which Briand was brought in like an aged grandmother whom it is desired not to leave out of the family festivities," as venomous "Pertinax" remarked in L'Echo de Paris...
Secretary of State Stimson read the committee a long and rather dull statement detailing Germany's plight just before the Moratorium announcement. When the committee began a series of gentle questions, Statesman Stimson grew fussy and fidgety. "You can't send a sheriff overseas to collect the debt, you know," he snapped at one heckler. Henry Pomeroy Davison, youthful partner of J. P. Morgan & Co., was hastily summoned from New York to deny published reports that debtor nations had on deposit with his firm funds to make their Dec. 15 payments...
...Washington, where President Hoover and Statesman Stimson have taken the line that Japan should never have occupied any Manchurian stronghold, General Honjo's promise of "spring'' (i. e. Japanese occupation of the last stronghold), was coldly but helplessly received. Mr. Stimson, having come off second best in all his diplomatic skirmishes thus far with Japan (TIME, Dec. 7). decided last week not to risk another note or even another statement to the press. Secretly he cabled U. S. Ambassador William Cameron Forbes to convey secretly an "oral protest" to the Japanese Government...
...Five heavy black Cabinet chairs were lined up last week on the official posing ground back of the Executive offices. Out strode President Hoover with a grey hat, Vice President Curtis with a black one. Secretary of State Stimson marched out in a derby. Soon the full Cabinet was assembled. A solid semicircle of cameramen began snapping, clicking and cranking at them to get the first picture in more than a year of the President & official family. Secretary of Labor Doak stood at attention on the left next to Secretary of the Navy Adams for his first picture with...