Word: lawyer-statesman
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...site. As the last boxing event got under way the night of May 5, 1925, the gravelly voice of Announcer Joe Humphreys boomed over the crowd: "Farewell to thee, O Tem ple of Fistiana, farewell to thee, O sweet Miss Diana." He climbed from the ring, sobbing. Next day Lawyer-Statesman Elihu Root and Fight Promoter Tex Rickard stood together bare headed in the rain as a derrick lowered Diana from her pedestal...
Died. Sir John Allsebrook Simon, 1st Viscount Simon, 80, veteran British lawyer-statesman. Foreign Secretary under Ramsay MacDonald (1931-35), Neville Chamberlain's Chancellor of the Exchequer (1937-40), who, in his memoirs, published in 1952, stoutly defended the "essential Tightness" of the 1938 Munich pact with the Axis; in London...
...Estanislas S. Zeballos, Argentine lawyer-statesman, now on a speaking tour in the U. S., finds that country very ignorant of Latin American affairs. He told of a letter he had received from the late Theodore Roosevelt: "Even the great Teddy addressed me as 'Senator,' when I've never been anything below the rank of a Cabinet Minister in my life, and, to cap the climax, my letter bore the destination of Buenos Aires, Brazil...
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