Word: statesmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While the Statesmen parleys and inflation temporarily occupy the stage front in the Washington political setting, Miss Secretary of Labor Perkins is doing her best to push her pet labor project through its last barrier, the House. This bill, known as the Black bill, makes a compulsory thirty-hour week for industry. In the process of its legal fruition it has fortunately struck a snag and there is every reason to believe sweeping changes must and will be effected in it, for as it is now constituted, this opus of Mr. Black is of serious portent to both labor...
...given a good indication of his diplomatic mettle, and at the same time has very definitely strengthened the bargaining power of the United States in the approaching tariff parley with Messrs. Herriot, Bennett, and MacDonald. It was very neatly timed. With seeming Machiavellian finesse, Roosevelt waited until the European statesmen were in Mid-Atlantic, definitely isolated from home counsels, before he announced America's abdication from the gold standard. Their arrival in New York should find them considerably non-plussed...
With considerable show of optimism and hopeful gesticulation, Statesmen Herriot, MacDonald, and Bennett are planning their trips to this country to confer with President Roosevelt concerning reciprocal tariff reductions. It is understood that the main purpose of the meeting will be to reach some sort of "understanding" as a basis for the World Economic Conference this summer. This problem of finding a general success which can be also a particular success for each party concerned, presents difficulties which may be found insuperable...
...purpose in coming to Harvard is to see this great institution that has contributed so many distinguished men to Japan. Two of the greatest statesmen in modern Japan, Mr. Komura and Viscount Kaneko, have received degrees from Harvard. Naturally, I could not leave Harvard without seeing President Lowell...
...that most German statesmen & politicians outside the Government's charmed circle were scared to death last week, would be understatement. Panic made cowards of the bravest of brave German Socialists and Communists. Even Catholics trembled-except Dr. Hans Luther. It was accurately said that in less than two weeks Chancellor Hitler has reduced his opponents to a lower level of groveling fear than did Premier Mussolini in the two years after the March on Rome...