Word: richelieu
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...aristocratic French family, accustomed to lead Quebec's backward, French-speaking farmers. His father was a Canadian Supreme Court Justice, his mother's father a Quebec Lieutenant Governor. His family gave the Catholic Church a cardinal, and Premier Taschereau, like France's great 17th Century Cardinal Richelieu, has prodigious habits of work, a suave and barbed wit, a lean, aristocratic grey face, an iron will. Nevertheless, last week he paid a stiff price for the fatty degeneration 39 years of power had brought to Quebec Liberals...
...President's corps of favorites is reported to be squirming with jealousy, the New York Sun's Correspondent George Van Slyke made so bold fortnight ago as to bill Dr. High not merely as the Democracy's political chaplain but as President Roosevelt's personal Richelieu. "It is to be an evangelical cam-paign," predicted Van Slyke. "Mr. Roosevelt will preach sugary sermons on brotherly love and the new social order, without making the direct appeal to class distinction and class hatreds as obvious and bitter as in his spring speeches. The new line...
...great repository of knowledge, and the rulers who culled the best from this patch had no reason to regret their choice. Today the university has replaced the Church in this position, and the professors may yet be made to walk the path of the cardinals. If instead of Richelieu and Mazarin we have Moley and Tugwell, the fault is not in the system but in the man responsible for the choice of his advisers, President Roosevelt...
Although the New York Times is loudest in editorially deploring the "honest broking" of the French Premier, P. J. Philip, its longtime Paris man, felt obliged to radio: "Even in France, which has had a long succession of astute statesmen and politicians from the days of Richelieu and Mazarin to Thiers and Briand, Pierre Laval seems likely, on the present showing, to have a niche to himself...
...Another quality that distinguishes the Dictatorship of Mussolini is his exceptionally wide knowledge of science and philosophy. . . . There are some people too vain to seek advice; Mussolini seeks it wherever it may be found, and therefore fulfills Richelieu's condition of wisdom and character in a statesman. . . . He is the world's most accomplished plagiarist...