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Late last week the White House stirred with sudden, mysterious activity. President Hoover had not been back 30 minutes from his Mid-West trip (see p. ioj before Secretary of State Stimson hurried in to see him. Soon a presidential message to Utah's Senator Reed Smoot in Salt Lake City started the Finance Committee Chairman at top speed to Washington. Connecticut's Representative Tilson, House floor leader, was asked to the White House for the night. Pennsylvania's Senator Reed was asked to report for breakfast next morning. Virginia's Senator Glass hustled up from...
Henry Lewis Stimson, Secretary of State . . . LL.D...
...year, however, it is generally assumed that the President will go holidaying somewhere, sometime. On the strength of this assumption his Cabinet members have been busily planning how and when to get out of Washington. First to announce his vacation plans last week was Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson. Late this month he will sail for two months in Europe, visiting Italy, France, Germany and Britain. In August he will go to Scotland to shoot some grouse. The fact that he will meet Europeans en route and discuss current diplomatic questions with them exalted his trip in press speculation...
When charges of ''Slavery in Liberia" broke (TIME, Jan. 19), Mr. Barclay was Secretary of State, answered Statesman Stimson's urgent inquiries with tact. Presently the then President of Liberia, Mr. D. B. King, resigned. As Secretary of State Mr. Barclay automatically became Acting President, which he was until elected President...
...White House last week Hoover Herbert and Stimson Henry Lewis decided, and the U. S. press was so advised, that they did not wish to recognize Friend Tang Shao-yi and his friends in Canton as the new Government of South China. Such it was, however, in fact. Canton celebrated the fact as New Orleans celebrates Mardi Gras. Flag-decked arches were put up. Cantonese, the southern excitables of China, cheered themselves hoarse & hot while Cantonese soldiers marched through the arches. Finally the new Cantonese Government officially established itself by swearing in a Cabinet: "The Council of Sixteen." In this...