Word: stimson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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April 13-Radio broadcast of President Hoover's address at the national convention of the American Red Cross in Washington; at 10.30 a. m., E. S. T. April 14-Pan-American Day. Radio addresses beginning at 12.30 p. m. from Washington by President Hoover, Secretary Stimson and Ambassador Tellez of Mexico. April 26-Shift to Daylight Saving Time in many a U. S. town & city. April 29-President & Mrs. Hoover's dinner to the King & Queen of Siam (see below); at the White House. Foreign News...
...biggest packing trust in the world." In May 1929 the President picked him as one of his "new patriots" who would sacrifice a $100,000 per year private practice for a $10,000 per year Federal job, made him Undersecretary of State. He ran the State Department when Statesman Stimson was away at the London Naval Conference, continued thereafter to exert a dominant influence upon its affairs...
...days out from New York on S. S. Leviathan last week, Senator Dwight Whitney Morrow received a radiogram from Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson. The essence thereof...
...plans for a vacation in southern Europe to the extent of getting off the Leviathan at Southampton and going up to London? Would he tactfully explain to the British Government, which acted as "honest broker" between France and Italy in their recent naval agreement (TIME, March 9), that Mr. Stimson and President Hoover think this agreement is quite all right but wish to avoid the battle royal which would ensue if the U. S. Senate were asked to approve it? Would Senator Morrow, in short, tell the British to tell the French and Italians that the U. S. would like...
Promptly the spry little man from New Jersey radioed back his hearty willingness to help. He worked under Chairman Stimson of the U. S. Delegation at the London Naval Conference last year (TIME, Jan. 20, 1930, et seq.). In the opinion of many observers he was "by far the most able member of the U. S. Delegation and the only one who played fair with the press...