Word: statesmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gillespie, 37, of Brooklyn) was to tele phone to his friend Cinemactress Loretta Young in Hollywood. About the party at the Carlton he said: "That part about girls being employed by me and my asso ciates - ridiculous! It would be a terrible thing, wouldn't it, if our statesmen in Washington could be influenced in such a manner...
...week, highest army, navy and Cabinet bigwigs met and went secretly to see Emperor Hirohito in his moat-encircled castle. They clattered over the ancient drawbridge at 1:30 a. m., bound for the sixth Imperial Conference since the founding of the present Japanese Constitutional Empire. About noon the statesmen dispersed but not until late afternoon was the Japanese public permitted to know what had taken place...
...well, "but Wu Pei-fu is one of the few men in China who cannot be bought."Last week the Marshal was available in Peking. If he has really come to terms with Japan (and in 1932 he wrote to Emperor Hirohito suggesting a Chinese-Japanese "conference of elder statesmen"for peace), the Great Powers may soon be tempted to consider that China has been given a central government which is an acceptable alternative to the Government of Chiang Kaishek...
...fruits of the Munich Pact has been the growing impatience of democratic statesmen with their own, unregimented, freedom-loving press. This impatience was testily expressed by Britain's Neville Chamberlain last month while replying to critics in the House of Commons. "It is not," he lectured, "one of the characteristics of the totalitarian States to foul their own nests...
Prof. Theodore Graobner, head of Concordia Theological Seminary, testified that the recognition agreement served as the "opening wedge" for Communist propaganda and added that it is for "the statesmen" to determine whether the American ambassador to Moscow should be withdrawn. once. Two of the courts may be used for handball as well as squash...