Word: statesman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Queen Alexandrine of Denmark, after a stomach operation, in Skagen Jutland; Prince Kimmochi Saionji, 87, Japan's last surviving elder statesman, as a result of "a train ride too soon after luncheon." in Okitsu, Japan; Deaf-mute Teacher Helen Keller, after an abdominal operation, in Rochester, Minn.; Maryland's one-eyed Governor Harry Nice, after an emergency operation for removal of an abscess, in Baltimore...
Dictator Smigly-Rydz, knowing that Pianist-Statesman Paderewski had conferred in Switzerland with Witos and other opponents of the military "Colonels' clique" that dominates Warsaw, immediately suppressed every Warsaw paper that attempted to print the Paderewski manifesto (which compelled the secret circulation of the manifesto hand-to-hand), and replied to Paderewski's demand for the cessation of reprisals against the Peasant Party with a new crop of arrests...
...Roosevelt the ideas of these countries, who have agreed to be neutral in any coming European war (TIME, June 14, July 5). Returning with still added prestige, Paul van Zeeland seemed ready to compete with Czechoslovakia's Eduard Benes for the title of "Europe's Smartest Little Statesman...
...Eliot Permitted to meet the 350-year-old ghost of Sir Philip Sidney, most moderns would aim chiefly at finding out: 1) how in his own lifetime that Elizabethan poet-statesman-soldier acquired his extraordinary fame, and 2) why. despite the fact that his prose (Arcadia, Defence of Poesie) and poetry (Astrophel and Stella) are today practically unread and unreadable, and his career no more interesting than that of half a dozen forgotten contemporaries, the aura of that fame has clung intact to his name ever since. Biographers have carefully recorded the facts of his career (better documented, less clouded...
...That is true," admitted Lord Dufferin & Ava, then continued his ringing address as a budding statesman by keynoting: "His Majesty's Government are determined not to allow calm proposals to be blocked by threats!" Without a vote in the Lords the bill then went to the Commons...