Word: statesmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such was the political hog-wallow to which Kentucky's two leading statesmen openly descended last week, two days before the end of their primary contest for Mr. Barkley's seat in the U. S. Senate...
...Senator Norris of Nebraska: "Felix Frankfurter is the most outstanding personality to continue and carry out the judicial philosophy of these great statesmen [the late Associate Justices Holmes and Cardozo]. The common people of America have faith in President Roosevelt. He will perpetuate that faith if he places Mr. Frankfurter on the Supreme bench...
...Vive le Roi!" The British Foreign Secretary, Viscount Halifax, who accompanied King George to handle negotiations for His Majesty's Government, began at once an earnest conversation with French Premier Edouard Daladier which appeared completely to engross the two statesmen as the car in which they rode followed the procession. The $7,500.000 jewels meanwhile were whisked quietly to the British Embassy, locked up in the safe. Individual pieces were brought separately by the Scotland Yard detectives to Their Majesties, who lodged on the Quai d'Orsay in the palace of the French Foreign Office. There, the large...
...Sudeten Germans. In case this reply is deemed in'olerable by Germany, as predicted by Nazi newsorgans, it becomes automatically a specific and possible cause of war. Therefore interest centred upon secret proposals made by the Führer last week and secretly discussed by anxious statesmen in Paris while crowds light-heartedly cheered Their Majesties. To find out what had happened, the U. S. Ambassador and the U. S. S. R. Ambassador each called at the French Foreign Office. They were told nothing with great politeness. Correspondents were informed at the British Foreign Office: "Of all the rumors...
...Statesmen Daladier and Chamberlain are also shopping for Turkey as an ally of Democracy. London reported last week the imminent prospect of a formal military alliance between His Majesty's Government and that of Dictator Kamal Atatürk, a hard-drinking but clear-headed Asiatic general who was pro-Soviet during the years when Moscow made that worth his while, has lately been pro-Nazi, is now emerging as the great Mohammedan champion of Democracy. Kamal Atatürk has now received a $30,000,000 British loan, dispatches confirmed last week, and Turkey has agreed to spend...