Word: statesmanly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...problem was: How to keep the Philippines under the War Department yet give them a civilian rather than military administration? The solution was: Appoint as successor to the late Governor General Leonard Wood a civilian with military experience, a soldierly statesman. A man that notably suited the requirements, was Colonel Henry Lewis Stimson, practitioner of law under Elihu Root, of athletics and politics under Theodore Roosevelt, of administration under William Howard Taft, of mediation under Calvin Coolidge. Last week Col. Stimson accepted the post...
...Senator entered and soon shook hands with the most important-looking one. Swart Curtis of Kansas is most important because, from his quiet aisle seat in the back row, he leads the majority party. Most-important-looking, a veritable redundancy in statesman-hood with his elephantine frame, florid face and canary waistcoat, is Alabama's Heflin, who mortally hates and fears the Roman Pope...
...Bolsheviki finally came on the scene. In a ter months the Bolsheviki established the Soviet Government, spread a Red army all over Russia and Siberia, and righted all the evils. This is the greatest single achievement in contemporary history and was largely due to Lenine, incomparably the greatest statesman the modern world has ever known...
German Deputies sought "door no. 2"* last week, returning from a recess taken early in November. For them a jolly, pinky-faced, white mustached statesman had prepared a heavy meal of legislative fare. He was Finance Minister Dr. Heinrich Koehler. While the deputies recessed, he had drafted the German Budget, to balance for 1928 at 9,500,000,000 marks...
...composed himself to sleep, inhaling pure oxygen, his swollen throat kept open by an inserted silver tube. As midnight tolled from a distant spire, the Premier stirred and seemed to rally. Then drops of an evil pus were discovered in his throat. Blood poisoning had set in. The great statesman who had doubled the area of Rumania during his eleven premierships was told that Death would surely claim him before dawn...