Word: statesmanly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...living things in time-soaked Charleston, it was not in human for the city to count its casualties in terms of history. Unroofed or other wise seriously injured were "the only Huguenot Church in America" (1681); St. Philip's Church, in whose graveyard lie the bones of Statesman John C. Calhoun and the William Rhett who captured Pirate Stede ("Bluebeard") Bonnet; City Hall, once a branch of the Bank of the United States which Andy Jackson and Henry Clay rowed about; Miles Brewton House (1765), where Lord Cornwallis once stayed during the Revolution. Razed was a row of ancient...
Rhode Island's Senator Green implored Secretary Hull today to take whatever steps are necessary to get ex-President Benes into this country. Brown University has offered the statesman a professorship of international relations...
...world this week, Czechoslovakia was a heroic nation. Its President Eduard Benes not only proved himself heroic, but was hailed with even more reason than at any time during the last 20 years as "Europe's Smartest Little Statesman." After Dr. Benes received the British and French demand that he yield to Germany most of the Sudeten territory of Czechoslovakia, it was smart to keep the Great Powers waiting nervously for 30 hours last week while in Prague the President and Premier Milan Hodza labored with legal experts, finally produced not a note of capitulation but a suave reply...
...Statesman J. Hamilton Lewis, whose elegant pink beard has grown grey in 25 years during which he served Illinois off & on in the U. S. Senate, announced he would retire from Congress next year. (His term does not expire till...
Colonel Beck flew from Warsaw to talk this over last week with the Foreign Minister of Latvia, brilliant young Vilhelms Munters, who emerged as a leading small-power statesman when he recently chair-manned the League Advisory Committee on the Far East. En route to Latvia, Colonel Beck created a great Baltic stir by becoming the first Polish Cabinet Minister ever to set foot on Lithuania's soil. On July 1 normal railway service was restored between Poland and Lithuania after a lapse of 18 years during which these two nations, created after the World War, had remained quarreling...