Word: stimsoning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President would have dined first with statesman Stimson, No. 1 Cabinet Man, had he not been in London...
Laredo business languished. But freight cars had to be diverted to Brownsville and Eagle Pass. Governor Dan Moody appealed to Secretary of State Stimson, then to President Hoover himself. Texas Senators implored the President to do something. It was even suggested that President Hoover hold a long distance telephone conversation with Mexico's President Emilio Portes...
Another, earlier touch of levity was the insistence by Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson that the U. S. delegation should land from their steamer in top hats, though two of them had started down the gangplank in soft headgear. "I feel rather like a Pilgrim father coming back to England," said Statesman Stimson, adding when correspondents did not seem to get his point, "My wife had two ancestors on the Mayflower." Another Stimson mot: "I have brought along my golf clubs, but I am no Bobby Jones." He laughed noncommittally when a British correspondent asked, "May we say that...
...last the George Washington, breaking out all her flags, nosed out into the Hudson River, steamed down the bay and out to sea. From Fort Jay boomed 19 guns, a Cabinet salute which Delegates Stimson and Adams took from the bridge...
Famed parrot-owners are Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson, Prince Albert de Ligne, Ambassador from Belgium, Lady Isabella Howard, wife of the retiring British Ambassador...