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...members of the Reparations Commission-Owen D. Young, John Pierpont Morgan, Thomas William Lament, Thomas Nelson Perkins-to inform their government what, as private citizens, they had accomplished at Paris. First they drove up to the Department of State in a taxicab, went in to call upon Secretary Stimson. After a long wait their taxi-driver grew impatient, suspected his four fares of stealing away to escape the metre charge, went in and told a guard they were "dead beats." Emerging after two hours, the four Reparation Commissioners crossed the street to the White House to lunch with President Hoover...
Senator Borah and Sir Esme were uneasy over the reported White House criticism until Statesman Stimson soothed their feelings with a public statement to the effect that their conference, informal, personal, had been quite "proper...
Great was the agitation in Washington over this affray. Mr. Lowman saw in it a direct challenge to the U. S. Government. Secretary of State Stimson called for a complete report from the Treasury Department, intimated that it might be made the subject of diplomatic representations to Canada. In it some officials thought they had a reverse of the I'm Alone case, talked of asking extradition of the criminals who had "attempted to murder" U. S. officers...
...nomination easily seemed to be Mr. Coleman's. But in Washington Secretary of State Stimson and House Leader Tilson, ardent Yale men both, became befuddled on their political dates. They mistook the Minnesota primary for the election. They wrote letters to Minneapolis endorsing their good old friend "Pudge" Heffelfinger. The Stimson-Tilson letters failed by a wide margin to nominate Candidate Heffelfinger. But they did switch enough votes to him from Candidate Coleman to permit Candidate Nolan to capture the nomination and the election which followed last week. It was a sorry business?the Administration's man being accidentally stepped...
...friend. Words from him on post office matters carry great weight at the White House. The Minnesota election was barely over before President Hoover appointed Also-Ran Coleman to be First Assistant Postmaster-General, second-in-command of the whole vast U. S. postal service. A friend of Statesman Stimson and Leader Tilson might not win, it seemed, but a friend of Secretary Newton simply could not lose...