Word: statesmanly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. James Garfield Randall, 71, eight-volume biographer of Lincoln (Lincoln and the South, Lincoln the Liberal Statesman) and longtime (1920-49) professor of history at the University of Illinois who pictured the Civil War not as an "irrepressible conflict" but as the tragic error of a "blundering generation"; of leukemia; in Urbana...
Died. Francesco Saverio Nitti, 84, scholarly Italian elder statesman who was forced by Mussolini into a 20-year exile for his unflinching opposition to Fascism; of influenza; in Rome. The late Premier Vittorio Orlando's World War I Finance Minister, roly-poly Nitti was a Premier himself, in 1919-20. During Mussolini's time he found haven in Paris, returned home in 1945 to help guide Italy's political and economic rebirth, thereafter served in Parliament as an energetic liberal...
...wife and Gwilym III to continue the custom. Alfred Roberts, 26, is a physician, and the youngest son, Richard, 22, will finish Yale Law School next year. Price still talks wistfully of going back to the law, forming a firm with his two lawyer sons, and being "the elder statesman while they do the work...
...Death claimed the first President of a new nation-as well as the Australian statesman who once had his secretary tell reporters, "As soon as he's died, he'll notify the press." Name...
...Ambassador to Japan. Allison taught English in Japan in the late 1920s before entering on a foreign service career. He visited the country in 1951 as John Foster Dulles' right-hand man in the Japanese Treaty negotiations. On the side, Allison is an authority on 18th century British Statesman Robert Walpole and his letter-writing son Horace...