Word: statesmanly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...London, says he is one of the most noteworthy of British Prime Ministers?an idealist and a pacifist guiding the country when idealism and pacifism are not the ruling passion of the world. Henry William Massingham, famed Liberal editor of London, summed up Macdonald thus: "Not eloquent, but a statesman. A man of principle, but not a fanatic. Elastic without being supple. A character as stainless as Burke or Gladstone...
Died. Field Marshal Viscount Yoshimichi Hasegawa, 75, famed Japanese militarist, senior military Elder Statesman, onetime Governor General of Korea; at Tokyo...
...Journalism is the best activity to participate in while at college," said Mr. Frank A. Vanderlip, eminent financier and statesman, while talking recently to a CRIMSON reporter. "It is the most valuable training for any career which a man may choose...
Professor Carver's interesting interview contained a statement concerning Mussolini which is worthy of comment. He said "If his political methods had been as sound as his economic policies, he would rank as the greatest statesman of modern times." With many others Prof. Carver shares the idea that Mussolini's power was ill-gotten"; as a matter of fact, the greater part of the American press has thought substantially along the same line. Of course it would be ridiculous for me to defend seizure of authority by force of arms as a general policy, but I believe that censure...
...Coleman is great grandson of Pierre du Pont de Nemours, French economist-statesman, friend of Thomas Jefferson. Pierre came to America and began manufacturing gunpowder in Delaware during the French Revolution. T. Coleman was born in Louisville in 1863, graduated from Urbana University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he was stroke of the crew, captain of the football and baseball teams, "ran the 100 in ten seconds" (despite his 6 ft. 4 in. and 210 Ibs.), shot, swam, boxed, wrestled. He started work with pick and shovel in a coal mine, being an active member of the miners...