Word: statesmanly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Death of a Statesman...
...Hull family were neighbors. I knew them well. Your picture of Billy Hull is true to life . . . Likewise, the word picture of the career of Cordell Hull does not depart from fact and truth. It reveals the heart and mind of him -America's most respected statesman of modern times...
...power, Tweed finally fell-and fell hard. His reign was exposed, and he was eventually sentenced to a year in jail for forgery, grand larceny and conspiracy. Later, a $6,000,000 civil judgment was returned against him. When asked his occupation for the jail records, Tweed replied: "Statesman." With official connivance, Tweed escaped from the Ludlow Street Jail and fled to Spain, where authorities recognized him from a Thomas Nast cartoon and arrested him as the kidnaper of two American children. Reason: the cartoon had shown Tweed clutching two symbolic ragamuffins. Tweed was returned to the U.S. and died...
Time was when all the U.S. politician had to do to look like a statesman was pop over to London for a chat with Winston Churchill. But no more. With the junketeering season about to reopen, the rush is on for a place long closed to capitalistic pols: Moscow...
London's anti-American NEW STATESMAN AND NATION...