Word: statesmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Congratulations to TIME for the opportunity to see, in some measure face to face, a few of the new Governors [TIME, Dec. 31]. After studying these faces of statesmen and patriots one feels exalted and draws therefrom renewed confidence in American constituencies. This is especially true in the case of the incoming Governor of Maryland...
...square off these matters took 90 minutes. At that point the two statesmen had achieved much, plenty to warrant the "high spirits" in which they were observed to sit down to lunch in Palazzo Quirinale with massive Queen Elena between them and minute King Vittorio Emanuele on the Frenchman's left...
Year after year successive Presidents of the U. S. turned a deaf ear-until Depression's 1933. Then with statesmen fully alive to the burden, political and military, of U. S. responsibility for 7,083 islands half a world away, with U. S. sugar producers equally dismayed by the flood of duty-free sugar coming thence, Congress at last offered the Philippines their freedom, after a ten-year trial period. Out from under the first offer Philippine politicians managed to wriggle. When it was renewed last spring, and served up on a silver platter by Franklin Roosevelt himself...
Such deflationary measures did not help the private business of Francqui and Gutt but, as public-spirited statesmen, they had their reward when the belga bulged above the dollar on foreign exchange...
Such actions destroy all logical and legalistic defense of lynching and reveal it as it is--the result of blind hatred and fear. The Civil War and the resulting Constitutional amendments were no solution of the racial problem. Calhoun, Yancey, and the other statesmen of the Old South probably realized more clearly than their victorious Northern opponents that when two races live together in constant contact one must inevitably rule over the other. The American Indians and the natives of Malaysia are but two examples. Intermarriage is the only escape from this rigid necessity. This solution is obviously impossible...