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...evening late in the week he called in Secretaries Stimson, Mellon and Lamont. Out of that meeting came sudden decision Saturday morning: President Hoover would accept the Legion's invitation, make a flying trip to Detroit...
...Most of these are military bones. But men die in the Foreign Service too. Last week Consul Giles Russell Taggart, technically on leave, died at his post in Belize, British Honduras, from injuries sustained in last fortnight's hurricane (TIME. Sept. 21). Grieved, Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson announced...
When Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson was in London for last July's economic conference, Herr Dr. Julius Curtius, Germany's Foreign Minister, whispered news into his ear: Frau Barbara von Haeften, Minister Curtius' daughter, had just borne a son in Berlin, Foreign Minister Curtius' first grandson. As a diplomat should. Statesman Stimson remembered this fact when, later, he reached Berlin. At a toy store he selected and sent to small Grandson Jan von Haeften a large sailboat. Last week a letter from Berlin reached Statesman Stimson in Washington...
...Dear Uncle Stimson...
...awfully glad the boat is big enough for me, little man, to sit and sail in it. I like to fancy myself crossing the ocean in it under the stars & stripes. . . . Meanwhile, I remain, dear Uncle Stimson, most gratefully yours...