Word: stimson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Republican convention at Albany last week was not Ohio's little red-faced professor-politician, Chairman Simeon Davison Fess of Republican National Committee, who had keynoted for the Administration at party assemblies in Ohio and Massachusetts. Instead. Mr. Hoover's No. I Cabinet man, Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson, citizen of New York, was on hand. Statesman Stimson had served President Hoover like a good lawyer at the London Naval Conference. In much the same legalistic way at Albany he defended and expounded the record of his chief in a keynote address which seemed to set up definitively...
...Stimson's speech dwelt, of course. primarily upon economics.* His first concern was to relieve President Hoover of the political responsibility for the business depression. Persuasively by rhetorical questions and answers he argued that the slump was worldwide, that its causes antedated the Hoover Administration, that the U. S. was suffering less than other countries. He insisted the Democrats would have lost their heads in such a crisis, that conditions would have been much worse. He lavished praise upon President Hoover for the "prompt and effective" steps he took last November to minimize the effects of the stockmarket crash...
Secretary Stimson declared President Hoover had made 35 campaign pledges, had fulfilled 34 of them.? He cited major accomplishments: i) The Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act; 2) Federal Farm Board; 3) a I% income tax reduction (for 1929 only) ; 4) increased public construction; 5) increased merchant marine; 6) cruiser limitation under the London Naval Treaty; 7) improved Latin-American relations...
Carefully avoided in the Stimson speech was Prohibition, prime question before the Albany convention. No credit was claimed even for the President's appointment of the National Commission on Law Observance and Enforcement. When the keynoting Secretary mentioned the fine work of Dwight Whitney Morrow as Ambassador to Mexico, the delegates applauded long and loud. Mr. Morrow is a thoroughgoing Republican Wet and the New Yorkers were about to demand repeal of the 18th Amendment. Likewise Statesman Stimson had very little to say about government economy, because Federal expenditures have increased to offset unemployment. The World Court was disposed...
...grave dignity of Statesman Stimson, after he concluded his speech, was upset by a clownish fellow in the hall who played silly flourishes on a piccolo...