Word: statesmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hundred years ago the United States in the Monroe Doctrine notified the nations of the world that the United States would go to war if any European country undertook a war of conquest in the Western Hemisphere. That announcement was criticised at the time by reactionary statesmen who said it would involve us in wars with European countries for the protection of little republics in the New Yorld. It has never cost us a dollar and never cost us a man but it has prevented European nations from interfering with the territorial integrity and political independence of 20 American republics...
...rate, the completion of the Endowment Fund has seemed to lag deplorably in the past few months, while ambitious statesmen have lured the shekels of their supporters into their campaign officers. The drive which was inaugurated last fall with a goal of fifteen millions seems to have lost its velocity upon reaching the twelve-million mark...
...Engineering. Every morning there is a large auditorium meeting addressed by some such prominent man as Mott, Eddy, Cotton, MacKenzie-King, Dean Brown, Fosdick, Fitch, or Bishop Brent. The best speakers available are secured, and it is hoped this year in particular to, have some of the leading American statesmen and industrial leaders...
...fixed in the mind of every young man who proposes to use his citizenship intelligently and conscientiously; neither of these achievements is due to any one class of men, and least of all has the superiority of our political institutions been due to the politician class, or to individual statesmen during the past hundred years. It is American public opinion created by the mutual understanding and purpose of all classes that has adapted our heritage from the stalwarts of the Revolution to our increasing needs...
...these days of constantly shifting opinion, when the one thing our statesmen, politicians, and publicists seem certain of is that they cannot tell what the morrow will bring forth when we turn in vain to our journals of considered comment for any solution of the welter about us, it is with something of relief that we pick up a magazine which may be fairly taken to represent the opinions of such a body of citizens as the graduates of Harvard University. Surely here, if anywhere, we may expect to find sanity and an enlightened conservatism. And we are not disappointed...