Word: statesmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Into German politics last week a big red apple of discord was flung by Minister of Labor Adam Stegerwald. Up to now it has been very much the fashion for German statesmen to paint their country as poor, to picture their businessmen as pressed for cash, dependent on foreign loans. With blazing frankness Herr Stegerwald revealed that today the German moneyed class have on loan abroad more than eight billion marks ($2,000,000,000). This sum would suffice to meet Germany's "crushing payments" under the Young Plan for four years...
...their sky-flung praises of our noble mayor. Or how they may wonder dubiously how much of the Tercentennial funds actually went to glorify the founders of this commonwealth, forbears of a race which has apparently relinquished the trying reins of Boston government to a more American type of statesmen...
...beat the record of Flyer Harolc J. L. ("Bert") Hinkler who flew the same distance in 152 days (TIME. March 5, 1928).? All Britain hailed that flight?done in an 875-lb. Avro Avian at total cost of $250 ?as epochal in the history of aviation. Enthusiastic statesmen proclaimed that Hinkler "had outclassed Lindbergh...
...Weather Fade Out. As finally divulged last week, the true story of the leak began with Correspondent Kirk idling near the door from which the Cabinet emerged after making their historic decision. Entering casually into hot weather gossip with statesmen he knew, Mr. Kirk remarked to no one in particular, "I suppose the Cabinet agreed to arrest Gandhi...
...financiers and with the great railroad barons-the ferocious cigar-chewing men who drove back the frontier with every blow on an iron spike. Then years later I was in Washington during the most stirring period of the War; and after that I went to Paris and saw the statesmen of a dozen flags sew the map of Europe into something they hoped would stay together. . . . I've had a vivid life...