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...State Department as one of the five most expensive posts in the world, Minister Harrison, unable to find suitable quarters elsewhere, took a hotel suite at $18,000 per year, as against a rental allowance of $3,000 per year. He began to write letters to Secretary of State Stimson, complaining of conditions. Statesman Stimson replied. Their correspondence grew acrimonious. Statesman Stimson curtly vetoed Minister Harrison's proposal that he return to the U. S. and explain in person why it was so hard to live in Montevideo. Such tension had apparently developed that last week it was reported...
Washington v. London. In Washington the President and Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson were officially "shocked" by Argentina's revolution but not even officially grieved. As one official frankly said, "Dr. Irigoyen's fall has eliminated the outstanding menace to the prestige of the United States in Latin America...
...President Hoover and Secretary of State Stimson held conferences on whether or not to extend diplomatic recognition to Col. Luis Sanchez Cerro who had just turned Dictator-President Augusto Bernardino Leguia of Peru out of office (see p. 22). The question was ticklish. The accepted U. S. doctrine formulated in 1923 by Charles Evans Hughes as Secretary of State, was to recognize only those Latin American governments which come into power by constitutional means. A complication in the Peruvian situation was the fact that the revolutionaries held Commander Harold Grow, U. S. citizen, commander of the Leguia air forces...
...wheeled a plain oak table. Potted palms were set in place. Lawrence Richey, Hoover secretary, bustled in, put a blotter and inkstand on the table, masked some talkie microphones behind piled volumes of The Historians History of the World. President Hoover, followed by Vice President Curtis. Secretary of State Stimson, Secretary of the Navy Adams, Senators Watson. Reed, Borah, Robinson, Swanson, marched in, sat down, signed the London Naval Treaty...
...When President Hoover fortnight ago publicly announced his intention to take his vacation this month in the Rocky Mountains, his official aides accepted that as notice of their release from the capital's torridity. First to leave on his vacation last week was Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson. No. 1 cabinet member. His conscience was clear. The Senate had consented to the London Naval Treaty. For a month or more he will play about the Ausable Club at St. Hubert's, N. Y. in the Adirondack Mountains with excursions into the woods to fish...