Word: stimson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first evening of Canadian Prime Minister Richard Bedford Bennett's "unofficial" three-day visit to Washington was spent in the company of President Hoover, Secretary Stimson and his assistant William R. Castle Jr. Also present: Hanford MacNider, U. S. Minister to Canada. Although no intimation of what was discussed was forthcoming, it was generally assumed that Liquor, Tariff, St. Lawrence River power, and a possible U. S. embargo on Canadian wheat furnished dinner conversation. Only public utterance on Mr. Bennett's visit was made by President Hoover. Said he: "We are mutually interested in the common welfare...
...people of the U. S. apologized last week to Benito Mussolini. Through Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson they sent him this message: SINCERE REGRETS . . . FOR THE DISCOURTEOUS AND UNWARRANTED UTTERANCE BY A COMMISSIONED OFFICER OF THIS GOVERNMENT ON ACTIVE DUTY...
Thus the Liberian Government through its representative officially ignored for the second time a suggestion made by U. S. Statesman Stimson in his recent exchange of notes: namely, that the Liberian Government should pledge itself to act on the League recommendations and further pledge to take no retaliatory measures against Liberians who testified before the League commission, incriminated the highest Liberian officials...
George Benjamin Luks of Manhattan, originally of Williamsport, Pa., was twice in the news last week. In Baltimore, as judge of a Pan-American exhibition of paintings opened with unction by Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson as "an outstanding event in the history of Pan-American cultural relations," he helped to award the $1,000 first prize to Alfredo Guttero of Argentina for a formalized, thick-necked Madonna somewhat reminiscent of the woodcuts of Britain's Eric Gill. The award moved Baltimore Catholics to indignant frenzy. Thundered the Catholic Review...
That magic sentence untied Secretary Stimson's hands, enabled him to swish Liberia for President Hoover as he swished Nicaragua for President Coolidge...