Word: stimson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Significance: "Good Intentions." Chief U. S. Delegate Henry Lewis Stimson, broadcasting from London on what "to me, is the significance and encouragement of the Conference, said that in the light of History it has advanced the nations on the way of limitation...
...should sit for the U. S. as No. 1 draftsman but the father-in-law of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, small-statured, mighty-minded Dwight Whitney Morrow. This was but just. For although the main U. S. legal prop of the conference maypole has been Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson, much of the strenuous work of dancing round and round for eleven weeks, much of the weaving in and out of diplomatic ribbons to make the Naval Treaty, has been done by Mr. Morrow, always keen, wise and cheerful behind his twinkly pince...
From four directions came moves to liberate Prospector Bristow. With Secretary of State Stimson in London, lesser officials of the U. S. State Department protested to Mexico City. Prospector Bristow's son, ''Obie," mistrusting officialdom, withdrew $15,000 in gold from two Texas banks to ransom his father. Largely because of the football prowess of son "Obie" at the University of Oklahoma, the Oklahoma City Times sent one Merle Blakely, staff writer, to assist and report the bandit hunt. From the railhead of the only railway in the State of Nayarit the Mexican Government hastily sent out a squadron...
...spend the Easter holidays with their son Charles Francis Jr. Mr. Morrow did not deny a report that his wife was leaving "because of important social engagements." Earlier in the week the wife of Ambassador-Delegate Hugh Simons Gibson had returned to her children in Brussels. Mrs. Henry Lewis Stimson was left the sole U. S. delegate's wife to stay on doggedly through the eleventh week of the Conference...
...significant fact which few U. S. citizens realize is that today Ford is the biggest U. S. name in Europe, bigger than Hoover. Edison or Morgan, vastly bigger than Lindbergh or Stimson...