Word: servant
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Luther. President von Hindenburg took the sensible course of biding his time before choosing a new Chancellor, and cabled stolid, pink-faced, sterling public servant, onetime Chancellor Hans Luther, to return by the first boat from Buenos Aires where he has been vacationing. Dr. Luther has been the outstanding Finance Minister of Germany since the War in numerous Cabinets;* and he held together a cabinet of his own during almost the whole of 1925, forming, another which lasted from January to May, 1926. A ponderous German "crisis" which may last for weeks or months before a new Chancellor is chosen...
ADVENTURES ON THE BORDERLAND OF ETHICS-Richard C. Cabot, M. D. -Harper ($2). Professor Cabot of Social Ethics at Harvard, as sincere a servant as ever stood before the Lord and his fellows, some years ago gave a thoughtful public something to chew on in What Men Live By (1914). He now proposes the study of Ethics (a word more inclusive and less suspect than Morals) by toilers in various vine-yards-Theology, Medicine, Business, Education, Social Work...
Next day, Henry Hudson, faithful Negro servant to the Governor, shouldered all the blame; pleaded guilty to the ownership of the confiscated liquor. "Henry, how could you?" said the Governor; forth with announcing that he would pardon honest Henry before retiring from his office in January...
Secretaries of State came and went, but Mr. Carr remained the faithful, almost everlasting servant of the Department of State. In 1924 he saw the seed of 1895 reach its full bloom in the Rogers Act. The diplomatic and consular services became one; at last, the U. S. consulate became something more distinguished than a passport and visa office. Thus, able men such as Mr. Kisner, trained in the consular service, can readily step up into ministerships and ambassadorships. Probably the great ambassadorships to the Court of St. James's, to France, to Germany, to Japan will always remain...
...Anderson Pelham, Earl of Yarborough, Baron Worsley (owner of many a Rembrandt and Reynolds); James Edward Hubert Gascoyne Cecil, Marquess of Salisbury (conscientious high churchman). The King-Emperor George V. resumed a gracious custom inaugurated by his graceless predecessor George III. The custom consists in granting to some faithful servant of the Crown a life lease on White Lodge, the royal estate at Richmond Park. The faithful and sometimes quixotic public servant rewarded was Viscount Lee of Fareham, who had given his own estate, Chequers, to be used as a summer residence for British premiers...