Word: statesman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Year, 1937, I nominate Congressman Hatton W. Sumners of Texas. Here is a statesman and a great patriot, a man with the courage of his convictions. His speech on the floor in Congress, in opposition to the Court packing plan, will go down in history as one of the most important factors in the defeat of that bill...
Cordell Hull's visit to Canada turned out to be not purely social, but it was not trade which occupied the mind of the 66-year-old statesman last week as he entrained with his wife in Washington for Ottawa, accompanied by his adviser on political relations, Jimmy Dunn. Greeted on their arrival in Canada's capital by a squad of mounted police in scarlet tunics, the Hulls lunched with Governor-General Tweedsmuir at Government House, began a two-day round of official entertainments. From Ottawa, Prime Minister King accompanied them to Toronto, where Secretary Hull called...
...integrity of China and the Open Door meet again soon. As any such meeting is infuriating to Japanese minds, President Roosevelt has not wished to act as host in Washington, "and Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain has felt the same about London. Last week King Leopold III of the Belgians, Statesman Sovereign of the smallest Nine-Power Treaty signatory, agreed readily "at the request of the British Government and with the approval of the Government of the United States," to be host in Brussels on Oct. 30 and to have the Belgian Government send out the invitations, not only to signatories...
...months ago, young, vigorous Leopold III, Statesman-King of the Belgians, took up the mantle of his Foreign Minister, crossed over to London and closeted himself with Whitehall officials (TIME, April 5). Three days later the curly-haired Leopold took the boat train for Brussels, carrying with him assurances that Great Britain, and France as well, would release Belgium from the Locarno Treaty obligations of 1925 and the Anglo-Franco-Belgian agreement of March 19, 1936 by which Belgium promised to help defend Britain and France against attack. Chief feather in the Diplomat-King's cap was agreement...
...Statesman Munters, conversing easily in Russian with Statesman Stalin, noted the Dictator's expansive natural charm, coupled with earthy peasant shrewdness and no trace of being a Communist intellectual. Mr. Munters, knowing how many abstruse, voluminous Communist tracts have been printed with Joseph Stalin as the author, tried to draw him into intellectual discourse. Invariably J. Stalin's rough and ready ideas, questions and replies had to do with quick facts, not theory. His queries about Latvia, Statesman Munters was distressed to find, showed an all but complete lack of knowledge of the facts of Latvian history, since...