Word: statesmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That the matchmaker rivals or out-tops princes and statesmen in importance was indicated when the Saturday Evening Post's Isaac Marcosson, "world's most famed" interviewer, chose him as prime subject for investigation last summer. During an interview which extended over days, the matchmaker said: "There is not a single competitor with sufficient influence upon the different markets to cause us any really serious harm. No market is sufficiently significant to be of importance to us. The reason is that the whole world is our field...
Worried Jugoslav elder statesmen reflected that if the Serbs become vexed at having to learn a new alphabet and turn from youthful King Alexander, a revolution will infallibly result. Even in Turkey, where the Latin alphabet was "successfully" imposed on a docile people two years ago by Dictator-President Mustafa Kemal Pasha, its practical adoption has lagged so grievously that last year there was published in all the Turkish Republic one, and only one, book...
Next day the mighty U. S. press was busy reminding the public that other famed statesmen-fiddlers are Nicholas Longworth and Charles Gates Dawes; some others even going so far as to mention Benito Mussolini...
...skepticism of League statesmen was understandable. Doubtless they had reminded Dr. Streeruwitz of last month's bloody clashes between Austria's two irregular armies, the reactionary Heimwehr and the socialist Schutzbund, both bands of political zealots eager to seize the state by a coup d'etat (TIME, Aug. 19 et seq.). Last week after observing a brief truce, Heimwehr and Schutzbund leaders were again roaring threats at each other...
...visit of Premier Ramsay MacDonald to the United States to meet President Hoover in a conference on naval limitation is significant, showing as it does, the importance being attached by statesmen to a reduction of the machinery of modern warfare. Is it not equally important, however, that the feeling of the intelligent citizenry of the world toward war be influenced and moderated just as much as the actual physical armaments of the nation...