Word: servante
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...Otherwise, he left Kesa alone at his desk, to make of the proceedings what he could. Kesa did not understand a word of what was spoken, but as the session wore on, he began to understand something of parliamentary principle. He saw that even Prime Minister Nehru was the servant of Parliament, and could be shouted down and booed. He began to realize that Representative Kesa was by rights the equal of any man in the assembly...
...labor laws and gloried in being called a conservative, Conant adopted a policy of cautious approval of the New Deal as a worthwhile experiment. His attitude came forth most clearly in 1935 in his awarding of an honorary degree to Secretary Wallace and in the accompanying citation: "A public servant of deep faith and high integrity who finds courage' to attempt an uncharted journey in our modern wilderness...
...state, having known it for what it is, something not divine but made up of human hands, and so capable of being taken apart in the hands of ordinary human beings and put together again, something to serve, not as man's history-ordained master, but as his servant and instrument. When you have men in their millions who have the sense of this ingrained in them, you have that which will safeguard them-and will safeguard you-from the ultimate cataclysm and the final bestiality...
Courage. Kurt Schumacher had worked fiercely all his life, and always in opposition. The only son of a Prussian civil servant in the fortress town of Kulm (now part of Red Poland), he joined the Kaiser's army in 1914; six months later, his right arm was severed at the shoulder by a Russian machine-gun burst. He became an ardent Socialist, railing unheard at the "Kaiser's war." By the time he could get anyone to listen, as a brash Socialist Deputy in the moribund Weimar Republic, the enemy was Hitler. Schumacher told Goebbels...
...William H. Alexander, 37, strapping, red-haired chaplain of the Republican National Committee (the first to hold the office), who is on leave of absence from Oklahoma City's oil-rich First Christian Church; by Mrs. Charlsie Alexander, thirtyish, who charged that he treated her more like "a servant than a wife and companion"; after 17 years of marriage, three children. Big (6 ft. 2 in.), handsome, a born showman (he was once a nightclub M.C.) and a spellbinding speaker who makes from five to eight lecture jaunts a week in his own plane, earned a tidy...