Word: statesmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...might have shown a preference in the naming of his earldom for some title as hoar in honor as the first half of that possessed by nouveau Lord Oxford and Asquith. Instead, little Freddy Smith, grown up into one of England's greatest barrister-statesmen proclaimed his origin by choosing the name of a city scarcely older than himself...
...Ministry of Corporations. He spent the day at Forli, his country estate (TIME, June 21) with Signora Rachele Mussolini (née Guidi) and their daughter Edda, now recovering from an attack of diphtheria. During the week, Signor Mussolini, once the loudest and most often vocal of European statesmen pursued his recent "policy of silence" (TIME, May 3) by issuing three written orders: Sicilian Riots. General di Giorgio to proceed at once to Sicily with an armed force and full authority to put down the seemingly concerted series of anti-Fascist riots which have been occurring recently in Palermo, Caltanisetta...
...French statesmen are more genuinely beloved. While his fellows clawed and slashed their bitter tscandal-strewn way to power, Gaston Doumergue disarmed his enemies and heartened his friends with a smile, proved by daily application his notable if not transcendent abilities, and was happily wafted up to the Presidency...
...parties would unite to save the franc. Naturally, M. Doumergue chose the potent War-President of France, the representative of French "Big Business," M. Raymond Poincaré. Soon Poincaré "presented" to M. le President a Cabinet which would be unthinkable in any other country, a Cabinet in which statesmen notoriously one another's mortal enemies agreed to unite: Raymond Poincar...
Thus, with a candid vigor unusual in statesmen, President Plutarco Elias Calles of Mexico informed the press last week that the Roman Catholic Church (in 1859 reputedly possessed of one-third of all real and personal property in Mexico) would shortly be deprived of all Mexican property whatsoever and its priests expelled from Mexico, under the anti-religious statutes (TIME, July 26) promulgated to take effect July...