Word: statesmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hardest working, quickest acting Foreign Minister in Europe is Signor Dino Grandi, spade-bearded, snapping-eyed. Last week he: 1) Appointed Edda Mussolini's husband to be Consul General at Shanghai, China; 2) Sought to soothe French statesmen ruffled by Il Duce's warlike outbursts (TIME, June 2) with a proposal that both France and Italy suspend naval building during 1930 and try to reach an accord; 3) Rushed off to Warsaw for a week's confab with Polish statesmen "on matters of trade...
Says Author Adams: "No Adams has ever been a party man." When statesmen came out and politicians came in, the Adamses were gradually forced further and further out of .public life. John Quincy, Minister to The Hague at 27, was second and last of the Adamses to reach the White House. After his single Presidential term he was elected to the House of Representatives, served there long and well, died in harness. Charles Francis, in the third generation, was Minister to England during the anxious times of the Civil...
...second campaign for the Crown, this rather terrible old lady has been aided by quite the most resolute and grim of Hungarian statesmen, Julius Ritter Gömbös von Jákfa, Minister of War. Soon after his appointment (TIME, Oct. 21), he restored the practice of flogging Hungarian soldiers for the slightest infraction, an historic Habsburg barbarity abolished in 1855 by Franz Josef. Tooth and nail War Minister Combos has fought the restoration of Karl's son, famed "Little Otto." Several times the election of Isabella's Albrecht as King of Hungary has seemed almost a sure thing. But suddenly...
Christian statesmen campaign, sometimes vigorously, sometimes desultorily against opium. In much the same spirit Soviet statesmen campaign against religion. With entire sincerity they believe that "Religion is opium for the people," but they can spare only a fraction of their time for the anti-Religion crusade?now largely conducted by the Society of Militant Atheists (600,000 members...
...Moscow this is the very thing Soviet statesmen expect, fear. As Communists they are arrayed against the Capitalist world. They expect it to fight back. When President Herbert Hoover and Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald summoned the London Naval Conference a queer thing happened in Moscow. Newsorgans directly under the Dictator's thumb screamed with alarm, warned that at last representatives of the Capitalist nations were meeting to organize secretly a Capitalist attack upon and boycott of the Soviet proletariat...