Word: statesman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Court, recently appeared wearing a mortarboard when she graciously laid at Oxford the cornerstone of an extension of the famed Bodleian Library. If she liked, the Queen Mother could sign herself Mary, LL.D., D.C.L., Mus.D. Palace gossip had it that it was excitable Randolph Churchill, journalistic son of Statesman Winston Churchill, who had aroused Edward of Windsor about the Garter King of Arms last week...
...full wrath upon his head. When demands that the troops be withdrawn were ignored, C. I. O. lawyers marched into Federal Courts seeking injunctions. From the Mahoning Valley Citizens Committee the Governor received a message: "Your stand is commensurate with the acts of a true statesman and patriot." But in his own capital 700 C. I. O. delegates assembled to "pledge the forces of organized labor to drive Governor Davey from the political life of the State and the nation." Said the Governor: "I probably am committing political suicide...
That Camille Chautemps should today be Premier of France once more proves the old Paris saw that nothing can kill a statesman's career in this interesting country.* Lawyer Chautemps was politically assassinated, so it seemed, by purported revelations and much seeming evidence linking him with French Public Scandal No. 1-I'Affaire Stavisky (TiME, Jan. 15, 1934, et seq.). Diving into complete retirement for six months, M. Chautemps, when he cautiously emerged, found many people thought the Stavisky Scandal had been so overdone that they actually regarded him as a martyr to evil tongues. Suave, tactful...
Although Socialist Blum had resigned this did not destroy the political majority of the Popular Front. Mindful of this fact President Lebrun asked another Popular Front statesman before dawn to try to form a Cabinet, picking for this effort a Radical Socialist who had twice before been Premier, Camille Chautemps. Names notwithstanding, the Radical Socialists are more conservative than the Socialists in France, and thus the selection of Middle-of-the-Roader Chautemps meant a shift toward the Centre and away from the Communists. To form a Cabinet on this basis was ticklish work this week. Premier-Designate Chautemps...
...MAGIC OF MONARCHY-Kingsley Martin-Knopf ($1.25). "What was really behind the abdication" of Edward VIII; a lucid, 125-page explanation tracing the last century's British opinion about the Monarchy, by the editor of the liberal New Statesman and Nation...