Word: statesmanly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...selection of material Mr. Hagedorn has drawn from a multitude of services in such a way as to leave one with a vivid impression of the variety of Roosevelt's interests. We read in turn bits from Roosevelt's the historian, the philosopher, the soldier, the statesman, the sportsman, and, what is more personal, Roosevelt the friend and adviser...
...Herbert Henry Asquith is Britain's Scholar-Statesman. His early schooling was done in London. In 1871 he became a classical scholar of Balliol College, Oxford, and subsequently got a " first " in Litterae Humaniores (1874). After that he went in for the Law, joined Lincoln's Inn in 1876 and "took silk " in 1890. His political career started four years earlier. In 1886 he became M. P. for East Fife, a constituency he represented continuously until the general election of 1918, when he was defeated. For two years Mr. Asquith remained out of the House and then came back...
...final solution of the Ruhr dispute are not for a moment "taking in" the Premier of France. In his last Sunday's "sermon" the Premier announced his stand to an anxious world. Bristling with the most significant facts and couched in the brilliant language of the trained statesman they summarize and justify the stand which M. Poincare has so inflexibly upheld...
...subsequent agreements. Next Monday night the question of the Ruhr occupation is being argued by the University and Oxford teams. There is no better source of information on the orthodox French view of the problem than the "weekly meditations" of the brilliant French Premier, probably the most powerful statesman whom the twentieth century has produced...
...Louis Marshall, William D. Guthrie. He brings to the Senate, in addition to a profound knowledge of the law, a decided talent for convincing logical oratory, merciless in its precision and directness. He has received honorary degrees from Yale, Pennsylvania, Trinity, Pittsburgh. In addition to being a lawyer and statesman, Senator Pepper is also the author of several legal treatises of merit, and is actively interested in athletics, particularly baseball...