Word: statesmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Statesmen from 55 countries, members of the League of Nations, arrived in Geneva for the eighth meeting of the Assembly...
...present era will be remarkable to future historians for its manifold expressions of an urge to unify human activities on a world-wide scale. This urge had taken clear form in men's minds by the opening of the 20th Century. Dreamers dreamed world Utopias. Statesmen fashioned a league and a court for the world's nations. In Germany and Russia, political reformations of the world were attempted. Scientists planned to blanket the earth with radio power waves from common world generators. Men flew around the world, proposed a world language, spun world-wide business networks...
Status Quo. The great complexity of the religious situation arises from the fact that many Mexicans are actually of a different religious complexion from that which they profess or even from that which they suppose to be their own. Thus many anti Roman Catholic statesmen have secret leanings toward the Holy See and often have Roman Catholic wives...
...become editor 30 years previous, he would have edited one of the most influential sheets in the U. S. He would have edited a sheet read religiously by the tightlipped, tightmouthed New England bourgeoisie, by politicians, statesmen, presidents. He would have lifted from his presses each evening the first wet copy of a lankcolumned, pinheadlined journal, which, even in the moment of its moist birth seemed austere enough to belong in the files of a Boston library; where, when he actually became editor, 30-year-old copies reposed as valuable records...
...conclusion, a care fully vague but unmistakable threat was hurled at the world in general by Signor Turati. The technique of this threat is now virtually "standardized" among Fascist statesmen in imitation of II Duce...