Word: statesmanly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hate is a blinding thing and fear renders some men speechless. Yet James Thomas ("Tom Tom") Heflin, Senate "fat boy" senior statesman from Alabama, who mortally hates and fears the Roman Pope, can still see out of his pale-blue eyes; can still talk and talk and talk...
...League States took no action last week; and the Nationalists thereupon called to Paris requesting Dr. C. C. Wu, distinguished statesman, and son of the late Chinese Minister to the U. S., Wu Ting-fang to proceed at once to Washington and explain the Nationalist case against Japan before U. S. public opinion. At Paris last week Dr. Wu, who is on a round-the-world trip for the Nationalist...
...They must have gone so far as to flatter me as being the man to have made Belgian stabilization! Need I say that I have had nothing whatever to do with Belgian stabilization, which is the work of that great statesman and great financier, Monsieur Emile Francqui? [TIME...
Such testimony from an Elder Statesman with the majestic record of Tang Shao-yi is of weightiest import. His career began, like that of Candidate Hoover, in the development of large engineering enterprises and led to government posts comparable in China to that which Mr. Hoover now holds in the U. S. Tang Shao-yi was Managing Director of the Imperial Railways of North China in 1900, and shortly afterwards became High Commissioner of Customs under the patronage of the great Viceroy of Chihli and subsequent President of China Yuan Shih-kai. Before the advent of the republican regime, Tang...
...Massachusetts note, said most observers, was simply a repetition of his original choice, coupled with a patient request to the G. O. P. not to come running to him before it had gotten hurt. His silence beyond this seemed to assure the party-and no statesman's silence was ever more eloquent-that if the party was really about to get hurt, he would be there, of course...