Word: stimson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Full & Free Access." Instructed by Secretary Stimson to judge the "Treaty from the language of the document itself and not from extraneous matter"; the Senate Foreign Relations Committee adopted (10-to-7) a resolution asserting "its right to have full and free access" to all Treaty data. When Secretary Stimson was served with a copy of this resolution, he hurried to the White House, conferred long with President Hoover. "Impeachment." At the Capitol Senator Borah, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, explaining the resolution to newsmen, admitted that the President could not be forced to give up the papers, declared...
...into every canvass. . . . This could have no other result than to breed unfounded suspicion and ill-will. It would not only tend to drag the Treaty into party politics, but it would go far to neutralize the efforts which our Government has made ... to cultivate friendship and goodwill." ..." Secretary Stimson acknowledged the resolution from the Foreign Relations Committee in a note to Senator Borah in which he compared the Treaty to any legal contract and added: "I did not attempt to define the duties of the Senate or the scope of its powers in passing upon treaties...
...Hoover at the Meyer mansion, the President-elect motored to Mount Vernon and Arlington, then dressed for dinner in his pink-draped bedroom, hurried back to the White House where pink roses, hollyhocks and maidenhair ferns decked a banquet board set for 56 men. Vice President Curtis, with Statesman Stimson on his right, faced President Hoover, with President-elect Prestes on his right...
...Faith and Beauty!" Next day Guest Prestes was welcomed to the imposing, white marble Pan-American Building by Statesman Stimson, who as an old school New York lawyer gallantly attempted an oration which would sound sufficiently fiery and cordial when cabled to Rio: ". . . Delightful task of welcoming you! ... In the history of international relations no country occupies a prouder place than Brazil...
...banquet address Mr. Hoover did not (like Mr. Stimson previously) attempt to speak with fervor, but his painstakingly read remarks contained one fine superlative...