Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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William Jennings Bryan, well known politician and anti-evolutionist will come to the University on May 15 to speak on "Evolution...
...White House, whither he had come before as politician, as Congressman, as Cabinet officer, came William J. Bryan as a Presbyterian. With him was his brother Charles W. and a delegation from the General Council of the Presbyterian Church to pass the time of day with Calvin Coolidge...
...would be withdrawn through a suppression of its credits. As a Socialist, and concomitantly anticlerical, he was bound to oppose having the French State represented at the Holy See. As a statesman, he could see no advantage to France in maintaining apparently insignificant relations with the Pope. As a politician, he had to remember that his parliamentary support was dependent on an effective anti-clerical policy...
Sweden regarded him as easily her most distinguished international politician. His interest in the League of Nations was enthusiastic and he did much useful work on various committees of that body. In 1921, M. Branting, with Christian L. Lang of Norway, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace...
...very real humility, if one could judge aright; not the pious sentiment assumed by nearly every politician on going into office, but the humility of a man who finds he is faced by "a tough proposition" to meet which he must draw on his best capabilities. Likewise he had confidence, the conviction that his mind could unravel the intricacies of any problem, given time and the facts...