Word: stimson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Because Mrs. Hoover was abed with a cold, because Mrs. Stimson was on her way to London, because there is no Mrs. Mellon, it fell to tall, golden-haired, blue-eyed Mrs. Patrick Jay Hurley, wife of the Secretary of War, youngest Cabinet lady, to accompany President Hoover to the Mayflower Hotel last week to dine with Vice President Curtis and his hostess-sister, Mrs. Edward Everett Gann. After dinner the President and Mrs. Hurley went to a reception at the Congressional Wom en's Club, leaving Mr. Curtis and Mrs. Gann behind. Mrs. Gann did not attend with...
With ceremonious solemnity last week Secretary of State Stimson and Sir Esme Howard, British Ambassador to the U. S.. signed an official document which added seven specks in the Sulu Sea to the U. S. domain. The specks were the Turtle Islands, southwest of the Philippines and some 20 miles off the North Borneo coast. The U. S. and Great Britain had at last agreed upon a boundary line between their possessions. Under the four-power Pacific Treaty of 1921, the U. S. is prohibited from using its new miniature archipelago as a naval base...
London's suave lead was followed by Tokyo and Washington, where Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson announced that "in the matter of extraterritoriality the American and Chinese governments are now in complete accord." Thus the British masterminds which coined such weasel terms as "The Irish Free State" (see p. 27) appeared again triumphant. Abolition of extraterritoriality will be delayed for years, but China's face has been saved...
Elected. John Grinnell Wetmore Husted, 34. erstwhile of Peekskill, N. Y.; to be a partner in Brown Shipley & Co. of London (first U. S. partner in that conservative house's history). His brother, James William Husted Jr., 35, was last week made a partner in Secretary of State Stimson's Manhattan law firm (Winthrop, Stimson & Aldrich...
Startled by cocky Minister Wang, U. S. Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson contented himself with pointing out that the present treaty guaranteeing U. S. extraterritorial privileges does not come up for revision, cannot be abrogated, until...