Word: statesmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gridiron calls for red meat. Raw politics are red meat for journalists. Were Washington full of statesmen, the Capital newsgatherers' Gridiron Club would lead a meagre existence. Last week's Gridiron dinner, though it was the second in three months, was a bountiful feast...
...That Isvestia is the official and responsible newspaper of the Soviet Government which is accordingly responsible for "grossly insulting and mendacious cartoons" of British statesmen...
...dishevelled half and ink stained fingers after the last sheet of copy has dropped into the insatiable basket. During the interviewing period, rumor has it, he spends his time dashing from University Hall, to Soldiers Field, to the H. A. A. in a frantic search for news; assailing famous statesmen in their bedrooms at the Somerset, and actors in their dressing rooms at the Opera House in quest of interviews; writing fervent letters to every acquaintance he and his parents boast; beseaching special articles on anything from birth control to the British Empire. So busy is he on these pursuits...
...long ago Foreign Minister Stresemann of Germany publicly declared (TIME, Dec. 20) that M. Vandervelde's personal mediation between the statesmen of Europe was an important factor in rendering possible the entry of Germany into the League...
Senator Reed of Missouri: ". . . English statesmen recognize the absurdity of the reservations which undertook to put us half way in and half way out of the Court...