Word: statesmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...came in contact, now with men approximating those mythical beings called "statesmen,"-men like Hughes, Hoover and Mellon-men who dealt in generalities which had hardly touched him. He had a few contacts with this group and with the financial group whom he had now to deal with. There was Frank W. Stearns, Boston department-store owner, who had been his backer and adviser. He grappled Stearns to him in this contingency. He renewed an older contact with some of his Amherst classmates and associates-men like Dwight W. Morrow. He had been living in a quite different world from...
...must, if he ever hopes to become a barrister, eat at least three dinners in the hall of his particular Inn. Thus, by the lime a politician has been through Oxford and becomes a barrister-at-law, dinner-eating has become a firmly fixed habit. Small wonder that British statesmen make such great use of banquets to deliver even the most important of their speeches...
...cannot but express my gratification for the opportunity I have had to become more intimately acquainted with the statesmen and peoples of Europe, particularly in this country; to learn more of their national aspirations and social and economic conditions. It has been to me an instructive' and interesting experience...
...agents of Russia, Bulgaria, Turkey and Austria anxiously watching their credit against the time when he decides to sell. A cartoon once depicted him ? a thin, awkward composed figure ? standing upon an elevation from which, with deprecating gesture, he tossed down handfuls of grain to grubby statesmen who scrambled for them at his feet. Ludicrously exaggerated as this depiction appeared, what it implied was, as a generality, correct; nor did it err in what it suggested as to the thinness, mildness, composure of Trader Cutten. Such a man he is. He lives on a dirt farm...
...While war still raged, statesmen in every country appealed in the common cause. Some gave their ships, some munitions, some the lives of their sons, some money and today only those who gave money come saying to us: 'Give back what we loaned...