Word: statesmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...touching it is that a poet should guide us to the true light and initiate us into the ways of wisdom! When in our eternal search for the causes of war statesmen and scholars fall us, there is still nothing to fear. For Ezra Pound is still with us, ever ready in his own subtle way to show us the truths that we seek. Here indeed, is a guide worth following. He was among the first to give a meaning to meaningless words by raising them from small to large type. But his contribution is really far greater than that...
...they tend to identify what is with what ought to be. Both have studied the past so thoroughly and so well that they have come to love it and unconsciously to project it into the future. Remember that Aristotle wrote his politics as a guide to Greek City-Statesmen while tutoring Alexander who was to murder the <> he loved so deeply. Professor Holcombe is willing to offer his knowledge of practical politics to the middle class, which is capable of murdering all of the nineteenth century liberalism which he knows and loves so well...
...proposed economy bill (TIME. Jan. 15). Equally hot was Mayor LaGuardia's defense: He must balance the budget by Feb. 1 to get Federal money for subway construction, and, said he. the budget could not be balanced by an "essay" on dictatorship. At Albany the two statesmen were all coolness and suavity. Graciously the Governor invited the Mayor to spend the night in his mansion; graciously the Mayor declined. They exchanged their views at luncheon. By 3 o'clock they had arrived at a compromise and were...
...Congress could end the experiments of President Roosevelt," said the Petit Parisien, also of the Premier's faction, ''but American statesmen are not distinguished for courage...
...great U. S. statesmen who does not feel his position altered by the shift in his country's political balance is Idaho's Senator Borah, the straddler magnificent. Always he has been just Republican enough to bear the name but always he has been poised on the crux of great issues, waiting until lesser men have spent their arguments, to impart his Olympian conclusions. His last great cry was for an Honest Dollar. Now that the dollar has moved Leftward to 60?, his cry is for collecting the War debts, a notion that Calvin Coolidge used to play...