Word: statesmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Suddenly a window on the second floor of the Palais flew up, and the chief foreign ministers of Europe announced that they had just initialed the Rhine pact and a sheaf of arbitration treaties! While candles all but showered the distinguished statesmen with sparks, Aristide Briand, Foreign Minister of France, and Hans Luther, Chancellor of Germany, beamed out upon the multitude, with the consciousness that seven years after the World War their countries had at last joined as equals in an accord for peace...
...recalled that these two statesmen have both wrestled long and unsuccessfully with French financial affairs. Six months ago the Herriot Government fell because it had had to inflate the national currency in order to carry on at all. As he stepped down from office, M. Herriot announced his conversion to the capital levy scheme as the only thing that could save economic France...
...pitcher, heady and fast, but he could be scored on, Mathewson could not. There were other men with the Giants besides Mathewson; occasionally they came up to bat; they did not have much else to do. While the enormous crowds shouted themselves into a frenzy, and small boys and statesmen muttered his name in their sleep-a name heard round far more of the world than the shot that began the battle of Lexington-Mathewson created a legend. He pitched three shut-out games...
...away, the Government of India is now deliberating the matter. If it decides against the Begum's favorite, she will at once appeal to the Secretary of State for India in Council, the Earl of Birkenhead. Thankfully British statesmen learned that she had brought her own curry cook, opining that had she not done so they might have been harder put to provide her with orthodox viands than to unravel the legal knot of her succession...
...instructor pushing a baby-carriage because he cannot afford a nurse, wearing butter and eggs on his old vest because he cannot afford a new vest, slushing along without rubbers because he cannot afford a wife. Too bad; they ought to get more money. Editors have said it, bankers, statesmen, industrialists have said it; the country ought to raise their salaries. How much of a raise has generally been left vague, but not by one Frank Bohn, who wrote an article for the October Forum, "Professors Should Get $50,000 a Year...