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...Republican convention at Albany last week was not Ohio's little red-faced professor-politician, Chairman Simeon Davison Fess of Republican National Committee, who had keynoted for the Administration at party assemblies in Ohio and Massachusetts. Instead. Mr. Hoover's No. I Cabinet man, Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson, citizen of New York, was on hand. Statesman Stimson had served President Hoover like a good lawyer at the London Naval Conference. In much the same legalistic way at Albany he defended and expounded the record of his chief in a keynote address which seemed to set up definitively...
...Stimson's speech dwelt, of course. primarily upon economics.* His first concern was to relieve President Hoover of the political responsibility for the business depression. Persuasively by rhetorical questions and answers he argued that the slump was worldwide, that its causes antedated the Hoover Administration, that the U. S. was suffering less than other countries. He insisted the Democrats would have lost their heads in such a crisis, that conditions would have been much worse. He lavished praise upon President Hoover for the "prompt and effective" steps he took last November to minimize the effects of the stockmarket crash...
Back from a month-long vacation in the Adirondacks, Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson had last week to compete in a strange diplomatic race. The question was that of granting recognition to the three new governments which military revolutions had ushered in in Argentina, Peru, Bolivia. Though the Argentine Government was little over a week old, the powers of Europe were falling over one another to recognize the new regime and thereby gain prestige, economic advantages. France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the Scandinavian countries had already resumed normal diplomatic relations and Great Britain, chief U. S. rival in Argentina...
...Washington meticulous Statesman Henry Lewis Stimson, successor to Mr. Kellogg as Secretary of State, took care lest M. Briand be literally believed, lest any U. S. citizen think that President Hoover or the Administration had "sent" Mr. Kellogg tripping into the wildwood of European entanglements...
...Kellogg was in no sense a candidate of this Government," stated Statesman Stimson, "but we may nevertheless express our pleasure...