Word: statesmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Editor Matthew Carey of the American Museum, wrote George Washington in 1788: "I consider such easy vehicles of knowledge [magazines] as more highly calculated than any other to preserve the liberty, stimulate the industry, and meliorate the morals of an enlightened and free people." If the encouragement of sainted statesmen could have paid printers' bills and enlisted subscribers, the careers of early American periodicals would have made a less hectic story than they do.* More aptly did Noah Webster write in his American Magazine,? in the same year: "The expectation of failure is connected with the very name...
...Government last week gave Mexico positive assurances that hereafter the State of Texas would observe company manners toward Mexican statesmen in transit between the two countries. Result: the Mexican Government reopened its consulate at Laredo...
...peace and war is qualified, beneficially or otherwise as may be, by his individual experience, is illustrated by Mr. Hoover's reference to freedom of the seas in his Armistice Day speech. For what is commonly meant by freedom of the seas, Mr. Hoover has approval, as most statesmen have. On one point, within the broader field he is specific, and his being specific arises both from his habit of thinking in terms of forces and from his direct experience with food during the Great...
...among nations, like Great Britain, whose geographic and economic conditions leave them subject to suffering from the cutting off of food in case of war. (This condition is the greatest one cause of Great Britain's insistence upon large naval armament, is the greatest one cause leading many British statesmen to feel they must preserve in their people a readiness for war, a martial spirit, year in and year out, in peace time as well as war time). Treating food as a contraband makes for war also among nations likely to be in the business of supplying food; the challenging...
President Hoover's judgments are colored, as are those of all statesmen, by the bias of his personal experiences. The part played by successful business men in the affairs of the government, which were at one time entirely controlled by the political whims of the right party boss, is increasing. Lamont and Mellon hold Cabinet posts, Dawes goes to London: Young and Morgan put Germany on a paying basis. On the committee, composed to stabilize business after the Wall Street debacle, are men all with a practical insight into the social and economic aspects affecting every section of the country...