Word: statesmanly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Candidate Smith, like many another U. S. statesman and politician, enjoys an occasional cocktail and highball, relishes a stein of cool Münchener beer. Candidate Smith is no alcoholic, no inebriate. Neither secretaries nor friends can recall when overindulgence has forced him to shirk his official duties.' Unless all who drink are drinking men, TIME would not classify him as a drinking...
Thus ended the most recent "Venizelos Crisis" (TIME, June 4), dramatically precipitated by the sudden emergence from retirement of famed Eleutheris Venizelos, mighty Elder Statesman. Upon resuming his leadership of the Liberal Party, M. Venizelos was understood to have demanded the Prime Ministry for himself; but last week he agreed to support the return to that office of his fellow Liberal, present Prime Minister Alexander Zaimis...
...third of a series of Hamilton Fishes who sprang from Nicholas Fish, a lieutenant-colonel in Washington's army. The first Hamilton Fish was Secre tary of State in Grant's Cabinet. Committeeman Howard's Hamilton Fish has yet to prove himself as sterling a statesman as his grandfather or as his father, who was speaker of the New York Assembly (1895-96) and a Congressman before his son (1909-11). But Committeeman Howard's Hamilton Fish commanded Negro troops in the War. He likes Negroes and they like him. "His nomination is logical," said Committeeman...
...matter how unequivocal this statement may appear, it is actually a statesman's weasel, as appears from the Baron's next sentence: "The proposal of the United States is understood to contain nothing that would refuse to independent states the right of self-defense...
...interest of Germans in last week's general election (see above) was scarcely keener than their anxious curiosity about the functions of the two kidneys of Foreign Minister Dr. Gustav Stresemann, now generally considered the ablest statesman of Republican Germany...