Word: elder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...real statesmen who have held his job. Henry Clay (1834-36) had already served a term as Secretary of State before coming to the chairmanship. Charles Sumner (1861-71) was a diligent firsthand student of European peoples and governments, and an intimate of many foreign statesmen. The elder Henry Cabot Lodge (1919-24), whose judgment was warped by his consuming personal hatred of Woodrow Wilson, nonetheless rightfully held his title of "the scholar in politics." William E. Borah (1924-33), though provincial to the last, was widely informed and superbly articulate in his chosen specialty...
...important to all the world. War has at once tightened and loosened the bonds of Empire. Sovereign, national aims conflict in Canada with a never-dying tie to Britain. Aspirations both regional and national stir New Zealand and Australia. South Africa's great Prime Minister, Field Marshal and Elder Statesman Jan Christiaan Smuts, feels grave responsibility both for Imperial Britain and for the independent integrity of his own country. India, the jewel of Empire, strains away from Empire, yet gives (or sells) men and wealth for Britain's fight...
These alarums & excursions were ironic wormwood to Elder Statesman Baruch, whose political philosophy is a good deal closer to Old School Democrat George's than to Franklin Roosevelt's. Throughout his report Baruch had repeatedly cautioned the U.S. against divisive pressure-group politics. He had labored valiantly to present a set of policies that would impress Congress and the nation without depressing the President, to whom his report was of necessity addressed. But he forgot the one great issue that transcends all others in 1944 Washington, D.C. Implacably Republican Senator Arthur Vandenberg blurted it out at week...
...long considered their Government a joke, were beginning to think it a bad one. Some of them even did something about it. La Prensa, great and respected daily of Buenos Aires, attacked the savage press-gag laws, the Government which made them (see p. 46). Said Alfredo Palacios, Socialist elder statesman, in La Prensa: "The army is trained to defend the nation, not to govern it." Leaderless construction workers went on strike because "we don't like this Government...
...Because Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch has an almost mystic reputation as the Man Who Can Solve Anything, the Baruch Report issued last week was widely and wrongly billed as a complete postwar blueprint. This impression was reinforced by its sheer bulk: 120 mimeographed pages, 30,000 words, one pound...