Word: stimson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...footnote, col. 2, p. 11, your issue of July 6, wherein you state that radio time was secured (but not used) over two big broadcasting chains for an explanation of the moratorium by Secretary of State Stimson...
Having decided not to drop the old lady in midstream but to trudge on to shore, President Hoover had more trans-atlantic telephoning to do. Statesman Stimson had arrived in Paris from Italy. Secretary of the Treasury Mellon was still resting at Cap Ferrat, after his arduous nocturnal negotiations on the debt holiday. After three long calls to Paris, President Hoover announced...
...Washington, Andrew Mellon's senior in rank, Henry Lewis Stimson, was so busy with despatches that he missed his train to New York; flew; sailed, as scheduled, for Italy aboard the S.S. Conte Grande. His trip was originally intended to be a vacation but President Hoover after re- ceiving the French reply, foresaw where his Secretary of State could be more useful abroad than in his high-ceiled Washington office.* On the Conte Grande a cabin near his B deck suite had been especially fitted out as an office for the Secretary of State who took with him Captain...
Morlock, a State Department code expert to handle the Stimson messages to the White House...
...Determined to use all his official personnel to push his plan through quickly, the President had at first suggested that Statesman Stimson broadcast a radio explanation of the moratorium to the country. Statesman Stimson hustled back to his own office, called in aides with facts and figures, wrote out a speech while radio time was secured over two big broadcasting chains Next day, though, President Hoover read in the public prints that France's contrariness was increasing, decided that a Stimson speech might complicate future negotiations. When the Secretary returned with a draft of his address for White House...