Word: statesmanly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...acquisition of Professor Puig I Cadafalch is a great step for the University. The importance of this versatile Spaniard is shown by the statement of Professor A. Kingsley Porter, Professor of Fine Arts, who declared yesterday: "Puig, I Cadafalch, architect, archaeologist, statesman, and writer, was for many years president of the Mancumanitat in Barcelona, where he took active part in political questions of the day. He was also one of the leading spirits in building up the Institute of Catalan Studies, Which has become an exceedingly important centre for research, especially in artistic and archaeological fields...
...almost boorish in his treatment of inferiors. His passion was imperialism and no toe, no matter to whom it belonged, escaped his heel if its owner got in the way of his policy. Few men were a match for him in withering invective; none surpassed him. He was a statesman of the old Victorian school, which had much to commend it but which is now something of an anachronism...
Vatican. He promised that the French Embassy to the Vatican would be withdrawn through a suppression of its credits. As a Socialist, and concomitantly anticlerical, he was bound to oppose having the French State represented at the Holy See. As a statesman, he could see no advantage to France in maintaining apparently insignificant relations with the Pope. As a politician, he had to remember that his parliamentary support was dependent on an effective anti-clerical policy...
Turning to the actual financial situation, he advocated the scaling down of the high tariffs, increase of taxation and an entente with Germany. It was a restatement of his old policies. The Anglophobe, Germanophile statesman had not budged. He declared that France "must not become a prisoner in the great bastille over which would float the Anglo-Saxon flags...
From Earl Grey, British statesman, a former patient of Dr. Wilmer's, a check; from J. P. Morgan, $100,000; from George F. Baker and George F. Baker Jr., $100,000; from Frank Munsey, Mrs. E. H. Harriman, Julius Rosenwald, Joseph E. Widener, Felix M. Warburg, Samuel Sachs, Benjamin Stern, Mrs. Henry R. Rea, James Speyer and other contributors, came generous gifts...