Word: statesmanly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...State Department went into a stew. Statesman Stimson hemmed, hawed, temporized. President Hoover asked the Vice President and the Ganns to dinner at the White House and escorted Mrs. Gann into the state dining room himself, with Mr. Gann bringing up the rear. But this meant nothing because present were no foreign diplomats' wives to point the issue of precedence. The question of a seat for Mrs. Gann-and Mr. Gann-was all-balled-up. Washington society buzzed like a happy beehive...
...made an attack upon Mrs. Edward B. McLean, too acid to quote. Last week Senator Norris, his tongue in his cheek and even sticking out of his mouth a little bit, wrote a letter to Secretary of State Stimson about the "extremely important" Curtis-Gann question. He mockingly urged Statesman Stimson to "hurry up." He explained he was interested only as an "ordinary" citizen who contributes taxes toward "the upkeep of this great mysterious social sham which towers in importance over questions of national and international import." After thoroughly flaying everyone else concerned, he urged that a seat at table...
...White House last week went Dr. Wu Chao-chu to present to President Hoover his letter of credence as Chinese Minister (Nationalist Government). Dr. Wu expressed his pleasure at finding as President "a statesman who has intimate personal knowledge of China through long residence in the country and close contact with the people." The new Minister's father, Dr. Wu Ting-fang, represented China in Washington before the 1912 revolution...
When one honorable Chinese statesman guarantees the safety of another, then if the latter is straightway executed, it is comme il faut for the embarrassed guarantor to commit suicide, and soon. Embarrassed in the Chinese capital of Nanking, last week, was elder statesman Wu Tze-hui. People kept telling him that a man whose life he had guaranteed, Gen- eral Li Chai-sum, the governor of Canton, had been executed-and there were newspapers to prove it. "Fate leaves me no alternative!" cried grizzled Guarantor Wu. "For my worthless neck the cord!" Presently there were Chinese "Extras!" on the street...
Excitement is risky for octogenarians, and so last week in Geneva, Switzerland, august elder U.S. Statesman Elihu Root, 84, was kept in bed for two whole days by his vigilant and cheery nurse, Miss Emily Stewart. As the personal representative of President Herbert Hoover, Elder Statesman Root had just scored an exciting triumph. After wrestling with the League of Nations committee on the World Court Protocol for 14 days−with a two-hour nap at his hotel every afternoon−he has achieved acceptance of a formula under which the U.S. Senate is expected at last to ratify...