Word: statesmanly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Perhaps this feeling is due more than anything else to the shock which he experienced when he realized that the story of Franklin entering Philadelphia eating a roll and with another under his arm,--a story told him when a small child and constituting his only knowledge of the statesman--was, as Mark Twain points out, not such a wonderful thing after all. Anyone could have done...
...Franklin", says Balzae, "invented the lightning rod, the hoax, and the republic". Yet in all fairness it must be admitted that he did more. In fact, not only did he show himself a statesman during his stay at the French Court as well as in his political work at home, but also he was perhaps the foremost writer of America at the time, as well as something of an inventor and man of science...
...national finances in the hands of a receiver: The League of Nations. As everyone knows League fiscal control of Austria was terminated only this year (TIME, July 12) after the country had made one of the most sensationally rapid fiscal recoveries in history. Perhaps never before did a statesman lead his people in the unprecedented course of placing their national purse strings in foreign hands...
...Governor of North Carolina asked the Governor of South Carolina who was the ablest U. S. statesman of the 20th Century, the answer might be Woodrow Wilson. If Manhattan Schoolteacher Annie O'Rourke put the same question to little Isadore Israbinowsky, he might answer, according to the degree of his precocity, Calvin Coolidge or Alfred Emanuel Smith or Will Rogers. Certainly neither the Governor nor little Isadore would be likely to name Elihu Root. They had undoubtedly seen his name somewhere. Mr. Root must have done something or the mighty President Roosevelt would not have said...
...Earldom of Clarendon was created in 1661 and bestowed upon Edward Hyde, the great Elizabethan historian-statesman...