Word: stimson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...example, at the first plenary session of the conference, held at St. James's palace in the drawing-room of one of the most negative British sovereigns who ever reigned, Queen Anne, the address of Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson was kept in the spirit of his opening sentence...
...Negative Stimson. An engineer knows that the negative pole of a storage battery is exactly as useful as the positive. Growing satisfaction was evident at the White House as, day after day, the chief of the U. S. delegation in London did nothing un-negative...
...these words there was the leadership of a field marshal who sits firmly down and waits for the four opposing armies to make some misstep against his impregnable position. In a sense the U. S. position is impregnable. "Our requirements," said Mr. Stimson, continuing his remarks, "are well understood. They have been cheerfully recognized by the nation which is our host and which has, through its Prime Minister, agreed with us that equality in naval power between us is a basis upon which we can best promote the beneficent purposes of this conference...
...January last week and Messrs. Hoover and Stimson were understood, respectively in Washington and London, to be sanguine that the conference may be crowned with success in May or June...
...first submitted to him as though he were royalty. He also said: "I sat right next to the wives of our delegation [at the opening of the conference]. . . . Mrs. Morrow was telling me what an awful fine son-in-law Lindbergh had turned out to be. . . . When Mr. Stimson said we will stay here till the world disarms, his wife says, 'My Lord...