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...raining when he returned to the White House late Sunday afternoon after a misadventurous outing. Ten minutes later, tired though he was, he began to receive potent U. S. officials whom he had summoned. Came Secretary of State Stimson, Assistant Secretary Castle, Secretary of the Treasury Mellon, Under Secretary Mills (laden with papers), Senators Borah, Watson, Smoot, Congressmen Tilson and Garner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Hoover Week: May 27, 1929 | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

After he recalled Henry Lewis Stimson from Manila in March to be his No. 1 Cabinet member, President Hoover searched the land for a suitable Governor General of the Philippines. The job pays well, $18,000 per year. It has served as a stepping stone to higher Federal office (William Howard Taft, Statesman Stimson). There were plenty of applicants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: To Manila, Davis | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

...Philippine sugar. The House bill raised the world raw sugar duty from $2.20 to $3 per 100 Ib. which would make Cuba, which already enjoys a 20% differential, pay a tariff of $2.40 per 100 Ib. instead of the present $1.76. Swayed by the protest of Secretary of State Stimson as a onetime Governor-General of the Philippines, the House committee placed no limitation on free sugar imports from the Pacific Islands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE TARIFF: Bill Out | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

Seemingly President Hoover is well pleased that Ambassador Gibson has contented himself with stating these principles' broadly and keeping the Hoover Formula in his pocket. For, last week, Secretary of State Stimson cabled to Mr. Gibson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS: Peace in Peril | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

...just back from Geneva where, with other famed jurists, he had been revising World Court statutes. President Hoover kept him for luncheon. They talked of Mr. Root's new formula for getting the U. S. into the Court over the Senate's reservation against advisory opinions. Secretary of State Stimson was present, a statesman with an ear quick and open to Elder Statesman Root, who gave him his first law job and later took him in as a junior partner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: International Week | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

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