Word: stimson
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...White House and the Senate continued to tussle last week over confidential papers relative to the negotiation of the London Naval Treaty. Secretary of State Stimson, on President Hoover's order, continued to withhold the documents from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on the ground that their publication might embarrass foreign governments (TIME. June...
...Extraneous Matter." What Senator Johnson wanted to know was why the U. S. delegation had receded in its big-cruiser demand from 23 to 18 vessels. Chairman Borah asked Secretary Stimson for more private data. Secretary Stimson returned a "confidential memorandum which will answer as far as possible" Senator Johnson's questions, and a refusal in these words...
Statesman Stimson realized as well as anyone that by withholding information relative to the Treaty's inception he was playing directly into the hands of "Captain" Johnson. To fortify his position in advance he issued a supplementary statement from the State Department in which, besides quoting many a precedent for refusing the Senate diplomatic material, he said...
...Silly and Worse." Senator Johnson, alert, tripped Secretary Stimson on one of the precedents he had quoted by showing that President Washington in 1796 withheld the Jay Treaty papers not from the Senate but from the House of Representatives. Declared Senator Johnson of Secretary Stimson: "It is silly and worse for an individual to contend that he can put into the public record a part of the correspondence bearing on the Treaty and then, holding up his hands in holy horror, pretend that the giving of all of it to his partner in treaty making would be incompatible with...
Goucher. Although it ranks 16th in enrolment among U. S. women's colleges, the distinction and importance of Goucher College at Baltimore are disproportionate to its registration (985). Fourteen months ago its president, William Westley Guth, died. Nine months later acting President Hans Froelicher died. Then Dean Dorothy Stimson, cousin of Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson, became acting president (TIME, Feb. 3). Last week Goucher acquired a full-fledged president, David Allan Robertson, A. B., longtime (1904-23) member of the University of Chicago's English faculty...