Word: statesmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the last plank in the platform has been nailed down, and the successful candidate has been forwarded a telegram of congratulation signed by the mock electorate in too, the nights' rest of these harassed statesmen should be slightly more recuperative than it has in the past. Although the decision of this Convention on Governor Smith's chances of carrying the arid west and the possibility of Mr. McAdoo's removing enough oil stains to be presentable will have no effect on the actions of the real Convention, it will provide a sort of search light with which acute minds...
...members have been great men, statesmen, diplomats, generals; two were Popes, Gelasius II (Giovanni Caetani 1118-1119), Boniface VIII (Benedetto Caetani 1294-1303). His father held many titles; his mother was an Englishwoman, Ada Wilbraham, niece of the then Lord Derby...
...heard at home would take not a little of the mystery and romance out of travel. And if predictions proved correct so that through a common tongue all nations of the world arrived at mutual understanding and peace the entire company of admirals and generals, armies, and militant statesmen would be lost for ever from a materialistic age thirsting for the wine of chivalry and pining for the fanfare of battle...
...think that the Labor Party is made up entirely of rather impetuous extremists is the greatest mistake possible" Mr. Golding pointed out. "In Lord Haldane, the Lord Chancellor of the cabinet, Labor has one of the greatest of living scholars and statesmen. The Minister for Foreign Affairs was a page at the court of Queen Victoria, and the Government has a cabinet at present which has only once been equalled and never surpassed in the last 50 years. Mr. MacDonald is himself trying to life the peace," he concluded, "as Mr. Wilson lifted the war, from the plane of sordid...
...Prince Regent and that the Nation must observe the will of His Imperial Highness. The Imperial will is contested by three opposing parties: the Seyukai, the Kensei-kai and the Kakushin Club. Their program is : Parliamentary government; protecting the Constitution; prevention of undue control by the Elder Statesmen in the House of Peers...