Word: statesman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While building a reputation as a conservative Republican statesman on Capitol Hill, Colorado's able, lucid Gene Millikin had sadly neglected the first principle of the politicians' trade. Only a few Colorado voters knew their junior Senator personally; his political fences were sagging with disrepair. By last week the fact stood out like Gene Millikin's huge bald dome on a sunny day: one of the strongest Republicans in Senate councils was in for the battle of his political life...
...year was 1882, a riotous time in the history of the evangelical army. In a way it was a day of victory for the Generals Booth and their followers. Statesman John Bright later wrote Catherine: "The people who mobbed you would doubtless have mobbed the apostles. Your faith and patience will prevail...
...Israell statesman declared today in San Francisco that the United Nations' plan to internationalize Jerusalem is "foredoomed to futility." "Jerusalem," said Eliahu Elath, Israeli ambassador to the United States, "is an integral part of Israel and cannot be severed, neutralized, or separated in any way from the state...
Another whose profit-sharing plan increased workers' efficiency was Jewel Tea Co. Started 25 years ago by Jewel's Board Chairman John M. Hancock, onetime adviser to Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch, the Jewel plan provides for joint pension contributions plus profit-shares from management amounting to 15% of net earnings after dividends. To some employees it has paid off an average return of 55% on their original contributions...
...scholarships were granted under the will of Cecil John Rhodes, the late British statesman and pioneer to "on-course the . . qualities of distinction...