Word: statesmanly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Observers were vexed to find the Deity so hypocritically invoked by a statesman who recently received the Nobel Peace Prize (TIME, Dec. 20, 1926). They agreed that he had flung a flat defy at Egypt...
...Zaghlul, widow of the great anti-British statesman Zaghlul Pasha (1860-1927), was active at Cairo last week in checking ill-timed anti-British riots by Members of his party, the Wafd. She and servants played a fire hose on certain rioters. Others, unchecked, lost their heads so completely that they mistook for an Englishman and attacked the Principal of the American College outside of Cairo, Dr. Charles P. Russel of Hastings, Neb. At him was thrown acid which burned him, though not dangerously...
...since 1926, though never supported in the Sejm by anything like a working majority, the election of last week assumes its true insignificance. Politically, Poland is a loose conglomeration of irresolute entities, held together, for good or ill, by a National Military Hero. He remains, however, self-confessedly no statesman. The marvel is that Poland, once given the boon of a government which is at least stable, has forged ahead so rapidly in agriculture, industry and commerce. Pertinent is a report recently issued by Financial Advisor to the Bank of Poland Charles Schuveldt Dewey, onetime (1924-27) Assistant Secretary...
Turning to philosophize on war, Statesman Pangalos became wholly the soldier...
President Calles, by Luis Hidalgo, famed Mexican caricaturist, was a most grossly insulting and funny portrait of this famed statesman. Hidalgo's faunlike Lindy showed the aviator riding a ridiculous horse around the world...