Word: statesmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...power in the House and the leader of the old Liberal Party. His hostility with Lloyd George is political and not personal. Mr. George has a warm personal regard for his ex-chief which is cordially reciprocated by Mr. Asquith. It is considered deplorable that two such eminent statesmen cannot agree to a working arrangement which would unify and consolidate the Liberal Party...
...everybody who for any reason can't run, golf is an unimpeachable occupation. For responsible statesmen it is the best, and we always rejoiced when in far-off Coalition days we read of the prodigious putting performed at Cannes or elsewhere by Mr. Lloyd George, M. Briand, Lord Riddell and others of that gallant and now deconsidered galaxy of talent...
Elihu Root, ex-Secretary of State, one of the few veteran statesmen that this country can claim, accepted the first place offered on the jury which will award Edward Bok's prize of $100,000 for a practical plan to promote world peace?a plan in which this country can participate. Announcement of the appointment of six more jurors is expected before Sept...
Apart from the likelihood of Government interference with railroad rates this Winter along the lines suggested by the statesmen of the wheat belt, the railroads seem due to have unusual prosperity. During the last few years money has been freely placed in new equipment and maintenance of way, which has tended to lower operating costs. Moreover, the current freight car loadings continue even through the Summer slackness to run at almost record figures, with yet heavier traffic anticipated by everyone for the Fall. Thus far, too, the railroads have handled a tremendous year's business with ease and comparatively...
...Baldwin's remarks were intended as a compliment to Secretary Mellon, and, incidentally, to himself. Said a prominent Kansan : " To the legal profession as a whole, and to a very long line of legal statesmen, some of whom are still living, the Prime Minister's words are, to say the least, a grave and unnecessary injustice...