Word: statesmanly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...capacity to pay, and finally, that any abatement of France's claim on Germany must be met by a corresponding abatement of the English and American claims on France. If Mr. Baldwin can unravel this tangle or can cut this Gordian knot, he will rank as the greatest statesman--or the greatest diplomat--of the twentieth century...
...deceased statesman held no fewer than ten political posts during his lifetime. He was on four occasions Premier?1879, 1882, 1886, 1890; Minister of War, 1870, 1885, 1888, 1898; Minister of Public Works 1877. In 1887 he stood for the presidency, but was defeated by Sadi Carnot. In 1882 he was elected to the Academic des Sciences and in 1890 he was elected to the Academic Franchise in the room of Emile Augier. In 1915 he was appointed Minister without portfolio in the Briand administration. He wrote many books, the best of which were on such subjects as railway economics...
When ex-Premier Clemenceau arrived in France from his visit to the United States, he went to pay a call on the aged statesman. The two veterans argued heatedly about the reparations question, with the result that de Freycinet's physician gave orders that no more visitors were to be admitted and under no circum stances could M. Clemenceau call again...
...statesman who wrote Washington's Farewell address...
...serious proposal is being made to undo the mischief of the tower of Babel and supply the world with a universal language. Dean West of the Princeton Graduate School is the sponsor of the new movement, suggesting simplified Latin as an auxiliary tongue to be used by "the statesman and the traveler, the scholar, the professional man and the business...