Word: statesmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Absinthe connoisseurs contemptuously observed that the humdrum bourgeois statesmen who make up the present Cabinet were wasting their time debating anxiously such a minor factor as the alcoholic strength of a drink which gets its chief effect from wormwood (absinthium) which contains the powerful narcotic absinthin. The alcohol in absinthe acts as the carrier and catalyst of the drug in its subtle assault upon the brain. Neither wormy nor a wood, wormwood is a bitter-tasting weed fairly common in Europe and the U. S. under such local names as madderwort, mugwort, ming-wort, warmot and wermuth. Swiss farmers never...
...Pacific put their biggest blackest headlines over news from Vienna, Rome and Berlin and wrote solemn pieces on the coincidence of dates, the possibilities of conflict. In London the "American War Scare" was loftily pooh-poohed, but repercussions of the Dollfuss murder stirred the Great Powers and set statesmen toiling as they have not toiled in years to keep peace...
That sent the statesmen scampering to stop Premier Gaston Doumergue before he could leave Paris for his vacation. "M. le President!" they panted at Gastounet, "your Cabinet is threatened. You must...
Because he gets around the world much more than other Bolshevik statesmen, Comrade Maxim Maximovitch Litvinoff, smart, roly-poly Soviet Foreign Commissar, has been tub-thumping for years in highest Moscow circles for some move to put a better face on the tyranny of ruling 147,000,000 Russians by means of a secret police of unlimited terroristic power. Last week Comrade Litvinoff got his way and dispatches from Moscow led U. S. headline-writers to splash out with SOVIET ABOLISHES ITS SECRET POLICE...
...first official act last week Admiral Okada ordered opened up in the Premier's Official Residence the room in which "Old Fox" Inukai was done to death. Furnished in Japanese style, this room is covered with mats on which statesmen may squat as their forefathers did. Since the assassination squatting has been taboo, with Premier Saito using chairs and tables in the new style rooms of the Official Residence. Last week Premier Okada went enthusiastically back to squatting. He called back to their portfolios the outstanding members of the Saito Cabinet except famed Finance Minister Korekiyo Takahashi in whose department...