Word: stimson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President-elect Olaya called formally on President Hoover for 15 minutes. President Hoover called formally on President-elect Olaya for 13 minutes. He was No. 1 guest at a State dinner at the White House, at another at Woodley, home of Secretary of State Stimson. He got a presidential salute at Annapolis, laid a wreath on the Washington tomb at Mt. Vernon, wreathed the Unknown Soldier's tomb at Arlington National Cemetery. He was ceremoniously lunched at the Pan-American Union...
Time Killing. Unable to kill the Treaty, "Captain" Johnson killed time instead by a great hue and cry for all the confidential papers leading up to and through the London parley. He was indignant when Secretary of State Stimson sent him only paraphrases of these papers...
...without hope, that the pact go over until the December session of Congress. President Hoover and Senators actively supporting the treaty were less concerned at the numerical size of the Johnson army than they were at the Senate's general apathy. Up to last week the President and Statesman Stimson had simply failed to get the Senate excited about the benefits of the treaty. Today the Hoover forces easily command a winning majority. Delay of six months might well produce deserters in an atmosphere of indifference...
...After taking the technical testimony, the Foreign Relations Committee concluded its public hearings and made ready to study larger, more intangible diplomatic factors involved, beginning with the confidential exchanges between President Hoover and Premier MacDonald which last year laid the ground work for the London parley. Secretary of State Stimson, when the committee requisitioned this secret correspondence, was alarmed lest its contents leak out to the public through the garrulity of some anti-treaty Senator...
...President Hoover carried 13 guests out to his Rapidan Camp over the weekend. After catching his quota of fish, the President talked shop with Secretary of State Stimson, Attorney General Mitchell, Republican Senators and Congressmen...