Word: stimson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Four days after the Hoover plan had gone forth, Secretary of State Stimson marched happily into the President's office to announce that Britain and Italy had unconditionally accepted his terms. Scot Ramsay MacDonald had made a great oration in Parliament [cheers] which had been echoed loudly by other orations from His Majesty's Opposition [cheers]. More notably, His Majesty's Britannic Government had spread the Hoover generosity around the globe by offering to His Majesty's Indian and the Dominion Governments the same concessions which His Majesty's Britannic Government received [cheers]. Lazy, bankrupt...
Three hours later, Poet-Ambassador Claudel delivered the French reply at the State Department, and went scuttling out muttering: "I have nothing to say, nothing to say, nothing to say." The U. S. Ambassador in Paris had telephoned to prepare Secretary Stimson for the shock. But after he had scanned the English text, he grew alarmed, almost ran to the White House to confer with the President. They hastily summoned Ogden L. Mills, the financial brains of the Treasury, and for three and a half hours these three gentlemen solemnly pondered France's reply. Eugene Meyer Jr., astute, rich...
...well after 7 o'clock when Secretary Stimson emerged, the muscles of his nose tightened by worry. Newsmen trailed him out of the lobby and down the steps to the street between the White House and the State Department. No, no, no, nothing to say. He twirled his cane nervously. "Are you still optimistic?" asked a pert newshawk. The Secretary stopped, turned, answered: "Yes, I am. If anything happens to the President's plan, it would be a crime." Then he crossed the street, neatly dodging a delivery truck...
Late last week the White House stirred with sudden, mysterious activity. President Hoover had not been back 30 minutes from his Mid-West trip (see p. ioj before Secretary of State Stimson hurried in to see him. Soon a presidential message to Utah's Senator Reed Smoot in Salt Lake City started the Finance Committee Chairman at top speed to Washington. Connecticut's Representative Tilson, House floor leader, was asked to the White House for the night. Pennsylvania's Senator Reed was asked to report for breakfast next morning. Virginia's Senator Glass hustled up from...
Henry Lewis Stimson, Secretary of State . . . LL.D...