Word: stimson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When he was Secretary of State, Frank Billings Kellogg was called (behind his back) "Nervous Nellie." Last week his successor, Henry Lewis Stimson, came close to earning for himself the nickname of "Hairbreadth Harry...
...Woodley," his Washington home, Statesman Stimson was waiting on the second floor for dinner to be announced when he saw a shadowy form at the window, heard footsteps on the porch roof. Cricket, his Scotch terrier, jumped up, growled a warning. Secretary Stimson threw open the window, rushed downstairs, outdoors, saw somebody sliding down a porch pillar, running away into the night...
Racing back into the house, Statesman Stimson snatched up the telephone, tried to get the police. The operator annoyed him with many questions. Ten minutes later three carloads of police arrived, searched "Woodley's" grounds, departed without finding any burglar. Irritated at the police's delay, Secretary Stimson remarked: "If it had been a fire, I'd have been burned up before they got here. . . . Cricket is our hero today...
...government of Brazil has a perfect right to buy munitions in this country," announced Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson last week. When Brazil's government promptly ordered ten used Curtiss-Wright planes, the U. S. War Department consented to provide, for $97.74, certain "brackets" needed to adapt the ten planes for use as bombers...
...suavely Dictator Machado left Havana on a brief fishing trip, tried to appear in U. S. eyes as much as possible like President Hoover, returned to his Palace, waited. At the State Department "grave concern" about the Cuban situation was admitted for the first time by Statesman Henry Lewis Stimson. But, quoting his patron and one of his predecessors as Secretary of State, Elder Statesman Elihu Root (in whose law office he was apprenticed), Mr. Stimson intimated that there will be no "intermeddling or interference" in Cuba by U. S. Marines. If it becomes necessary to send them this will...