Word: statesman
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Russian revolution is not a Mexican revolution; Lenine as a statesman is the superior of Huerta. He has called your bluff twice, and twice you have backed down. You can not shift the responsibility, Mr. President; Winston Churchill, British Minister of War, declared in the House of Commons on November 6 that "the government's policy is not wholly a British policy, but one carried out in full co-operation with all the Allies, including the United States, who are equally responsible." In the words of Raymond Robbins, "Your policy has resulted not in stamping Bolshevism out, but in stamping...
...were to admit personalities as scientific or argumentative (which Heaven forbid), we might conceivably, as a pastime, consider the Morris-chair and bedroom-slipper variety of economist in the same breath with the statesman and economist who is building a great nation on a new co-operative principle, might we not, and declare our peculiar preference? J. LESLIE HOTSON...
...honor to a great hero of the great war, whose victories are not of a military but of a saintly order; by profession an ecclesiastic, by temperament a scholar, by force of circumstances and of his own character a statesman. Early attracted by the scholastic philosophy he created when still young the Institute of Philosophy at Louvain, and possessing the strenuous industry of a scholar he took as his motto "Labor as a good soldier of Christ." His philosophic system comprehended the thought of all ages and the discoveries of modern psychology; and his fame, with that of all ages...
...that faces the country today. It is particularly a problem for the college man, who is wondering how he can best fit himself for the important part that he is expected to play in the new work of the world. No matter what he plans to be--business man, statesman, professional man, or anything else--he realizes that his generation will have to face tremendous new problems in every field. This knowledge very naturally brings up in his mind the question: 'Is the college education of today going to help me to meet the problems of tomorrow? Should there...
...outstanding feature of Colonel Roosevelt's life was his marvelous versatility. Not only as a great statesman, but also as a teacher, explorer, soldier, naturalist, public speaker, and author he has revealed a personality which has become famous the world over, the memory of which will live for years to come