Word: statesmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...leaguers will find in this book a well-ordered defence of their faith, backed up by a long line of quotations from presidents, statesmen and politicians. Anti-leaguers will consider it as the acme of unreasoned prejudice, or will not consider...
...Author. Louise Bryant is a beautiful girl still in her twenties, with large brown eyes, chestnut hair, and an impudent air of self-assurance that disarms diplomats, statesmen, detectives and editors. As the wife of the late John Reed, " Playboy of the Revolution," she has had more adventures in five years than ten ordinary women have in a lifetime. She first met the Communist leaders sketched in her book in 1917 during the Bolshevik coup d'etat which her husband described in what is still the most graphic and authentic picture of the revolution, as "Ten Days That Shook...
...though generally opposed to the present attitude of aloofness on the part of the United States, at least favored non-interference in the present crisis. Whatever view history may take of France's steps of reprisal, or whatever plans may now be simmering in the minds of our striving statesmen, the opinion expressed as coming from a representative group of American students, is both significant and impressive...
...analysis of political organizations and activities. The student of public administration who was ignorant of such subjects as accounting, statistics, and public finance would fail to penetrate the depths of his subject. Above all, the student of government should read history, especially the biographies of statesmen, for the data of politics are the acts of men. History and biography form the bodies of data, which the student of government must utilize as the basis of his study. The admirable short collection of biographies and autobiographies in the Farnsworth Room at the Library furnishes a most convenient foundation for the study...
...Vanderbilt was probated, it was made known that at the time of my marriage to Consuelo Vanderbilt, from whom I am now divorced, Mr. Vanderbilt set aside $2,500,000 in railroad stock from which I and my heirs are to receive the income. These arrangements create what statesmen call 'indissoluble Anglo-American ties...