Word: christian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...accomplished statesmen met as they strolled about the great Spring Fair at Lyons last week. One was the bland and moon-faced M. Christian G. Rakovsky, Soviet Ambassador to France. The other was the vital, curly-haired Mayor of Lyons, M. Edouard Herriot, President of the Chamber of Deputies, former Premier, and still leader of the most potent political bloc in France, Le Cartel des Gauches (coalition of Left Parties...
...Egypt, Afghanistan, South Africa. But death, defeat and Gladstone were upon him. In the elections in 1880, Gladstone introduced stump oratory to British democracy. Through his campaign in the constituency of Midlothian he appealed to the country. Economy for those at home, freedom for oppressed nations abroad-finance and Christian idealism?these were his two topics. In the battle of Midlothian, he temporarily buried Disraeli's glory under an unprecedented Liberal victory. "Nothing more than trouble and trial await me," said the Queen. He came back to power?not the old Gladstone of Christ Church, Oxford, but the new Gladstone...
Significance. Disraeli and Gladstone?both were remote. Disraeli, artist and Jew, seemed always a foreigner. Gladstone, Olympian Christian, had, said one, "the mind of a 13th Century schoolman." One seemed to come from another clime, one from another time. They both ruled the hard-headed men of England for two generations. Both were clearly patterned in the weave, not only of England, but also of the modern world. Fortunately two of the world's greatest biographies record their lives-Lord Morley on Gladstone, Moneypenny and Buckle on Disraeli...
...Deep-voiced, bushy-browed John R. Mott (Cornell '88) typifies the 20th Century Christian soldier. For 32 years he headed the executive committee of the Student Volunteer Movement, collegiate missionary enterprise that set out in 1888 to evangelize the world in its generation. From 1895 to 1920 he also functioned as general secretary of the World's Student Christian Federation. Since 1920 he has given most of his time to the latter as its chairman. It was he who was most grieved when bubbles of soldier-criticism welled up against the Y. M. C. A.'s service abroad during...
...only because of a contemplated trip of vagabondage to Italy next summer, but also because of a lecture I once heard in Fogg, I have a desire for completer understanding of the early Christian basilicas in Rome. At noon today I am going to Robinson Hall to hear Professor Conant's talk which will make clear many points I should like to have explained...