Word: stimson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Conference was found by President Hoover last week in his temporary offices in the State, War & Navy building. Acting Secretary of State Cotton was just down the corridor and around the corner. The President's door was open to him at any hour with despatches from Chief Delegate Stimson at St. James's palace. Downstairs in the cable room were expert telegraphers. Code clerks filled the code room from which all snoopers were shooed away. Tall, curly-haired Pierre De Lagorde Boal of Boalsburg, Pa., chief of the department's conference secretariat, sat in his office like...
...complicated machinery for quick diplomatic communication was tuned up for the conference rush of business. Only lacking was the rush of business. The President could ask Statesman Stimson a question in London and get an answer in ten minutes, if necessary. But last week it was not necessary. President Hoover had few questions to ask because Statesman Stimson was doing little. And that was just what President Hoover wanted Statesman Stimson to do at first...
...five principal U. S. delegates-Stimson, Adams, Reed, Robinson, Morrow-and their wives the Star said, "The men seem to be fatherly, homely folk and their wives motherly and even more homely." Lest it should be misunderstood, the Star added, for the benefit of visitors weak in the King's English, that "The connotation of 'homely' changes in crossing the Atlantic, and in England has of course no reference to facial appearance...
...instant reaction of Statesman Stimson and his colleagues was strongly in the negative, since capital ships have always been "the backbone of the U. S. Navy." They seemed to fear that Mr. MacDonald was trying to put them in the highly awkward position of being forced to defend the right of the U. S. to build the very biggest, most costly, most palpably menacing type of ship...
Statesman Stimson seemed relieved by this turn of affairs; but meanwhile in Washington, President Herbert Hoover let the White House correspondents announce that he stood ready to go as far as Ramsay MacDonald or anyone else, that the U. S. would gladly join the Great Powers in any armament slash, however deep. This same position has been taken by Dictator Benito Mussolini for many years. Despite his saber-rattling, the representative of Italy has declared, time after time, that she would join the rest of the world in reducing armaments: "To any common minimum, even the lowest...