Word: statesmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...People are my hobby," continued McIntyre. "They are the stuff from which news is made. People do many things under many different circumstances. There seldom passes a day in which someone doesn't do something out of the ordinary. It is not the kings and statesmen that make the best news, but it is the common person of the street. The newsboy who stands at the entrance to A1 Smith's building, the peddlers of the lower East Side, the herd that wanders through the Aquarium daily, the captains of the river tugs, and the whistling traffic...
...this. It is the old story of a Germany hopelessly tangled in a mass of debts and on the verge of bankruptcy. Everyone knows that Germany is unable to pay in full. As a matter of fact by the Lausanne agreement which cut reparations almost to zero the statesmen of the Western World, if not its parliaments, admitted Germany could pay no more...
...Kingdom's Mosul oil through their ably drawn contracts. Last week. however, Mother Briton clucked loudly at Geneva, announced that Irak has officially hatched into an "Independent Kingdom." To certify Irak's independence Irak was made a member state of the League of Nations and batches of League statesmen made speeches...
...accomplish will, of course, depend very much on international political conditions and on conditions in the domestic politics of the various governments. Even if the conference should have no decisive issue in governmental action, it can scarcely fail to have value as an educative force, acting directly on the statesmen at the conference and indirectly on the electorates of the world. In organizing a World Economic Conference the nations are at least using a reasonable method. In seeking the opinions of experts they are admitting that knowledge and reason are the only safe guides in matters of such tremendous complexity...
...Herbert's Liberals are considered "orthodox" because they champion Free Trade, the traditional Liberal policy and are supported by such venerable colleagues of the late Lord Asquith as half-blind Viscount Grey of Fallodon and the Marquess of Reading, greatest of Britain's living elder statesmen...