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...grey-haired Andrew F. Schoeppel, the kind of do-little statesman whose name is likely to elude the most earnest followers of affairs in the U.S. Senate, got the floor one day last week to discuss statehood for Alaska and Hawaii. "I am somewhat reluctant," the senior Senator from Kansas began, ". . . to talk about matters that question or might impugn the loyalty of certain officials . . ." Then, quickly overcoming his reluctance, plodding, 55-year-old Republican Andy Schoeppel proceeded for the next two hours to impugn the loyalty of Secretary of Interior Oscar Chapman...
...months, stubborn old Jan Christian Smuts fought off death. Exhausted by pneumonia and heart strain, the 80-year-old statesman made a slight concession to the enemy last June-he "temporarily" yielded his leadership of South Africa's United Party to his deputy, Jacobus Gideon Nel Strauss. But through his son, he announced that he planned soon "once more to enter the fray with renewed vigor." Last week, against his doctors' advice, Smuts left his tin-walled farmhouse to do just that...
...Idea of the Whole. Jan Smuts had always been in the fray-as statesman and soldier, as author, orator, mountain-climber, scientist, philosopher. He had been such an indefatigable participant in his time's great events that the world came to think of him as one of its great men. More honored abroad than at home, for more than 40 years he made the voice of his far-off country heard in the world...
While Taft tried to establish himself as the true friend of the working man, his opponent, State Auditor "Jumping Joe" Ferguson, tried to establish himself as a statesman, by being seen in the proper surroundings. As he does every couple of weeks, Ferguson bounced into the White House to get his picture taken there, and to assure the President that he will beat Taft by anywhere up to a million votes. Harry Truman apparently never tires of hearing...
When a young woman crashed her Mercury convertible smack-dab into his black limousine on Long Island's Grand Central Parkway, Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch, 80, calmly surveyed the wreckage, told her: "I hope your parents won't be too severe. Just tell them it was the other guy's fault...