Word: statesmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next day two statesmen from the American continent-Tennessee's fervent Cordell Hull and Canada's vehement Premier Richard Bedford Bennett-joined forces to put President Roosevelt's thesis across. For several days the British dominions, all far more radical than the Mother Country, had been warming up to the special Roosevelt brand of "price raising." All speeches made were kept secret, but at one point Secretary Hull brandished under the knifelike nose of French Finance Minister Bonnet a copy of that thick pamphlet, the Conference agenda, asking with passionate emphasis whether there were not scores...
...breeding trade practices and methods." The steering committee, cold to this proposal, began to discuss adjourning the Conference on July 26 "for at least two months" but were halted by a fresh emotional plea from Mr. Hull. "I do not see," cried he to correspondents, "how the Conference statesmen can go home to their starving people and admit they have failed to achieve anything...
...Polish. Several years ago, when Russia and Poland were publicly at daggers points, he began making overtures to a Pole who had been born on soil now part of the Soviet Union, famed August Zaleski. "The Briand of the North," then Foreign Minister of Poland. Almost furtively the two statesmen laid the basis of a diplomatic rapprochement, perhaps not desired at that time by either Dictator Stalin or Dictator Pilsudski. Last year M. Zaleski was replaced by Foreign Minister Beck, a "Pilsudski Colonel," reputed a swashbuckler. Momentarily the Polish-Russian rapprochement seemed to go glimmering. But Adolf Hitler, with...
...last week Russia had still clung, through a thousand skirmishes, intrigues and bandit wars, to her original line across North Manchuria, a road named the "Chinese Eastern Railway" in a deliberate attempt by tsarist statesmen to disguise its Russian character. Built on the extra wide five-ft. Russian gauge, the C. E. R. is more than 1,000 miles long and famed for its towering, broad-beamed cars. Manchuria n ponies scatter whinnying with terror at the vast clouds of smoke belched by wood-burning C. E. R. locomotives. Chinese bandits, observing a peculiar etiquet. never blow...
...including Holworthy were called "Colleges," and up until the Civil War people used to speak of the "Colleges at Cambridge," when speaking of the buildings in the Yard. Here the first Commencement took place in 1642, which included, just as today, orations in Latin and English, elder statesmen and church dignitaries, and hoards of beaming parents. The stock joke of the Latin orations then, as now, was the term, "Pulcherimis puellas," at which the gathering has laughed with boring regularity for 300 years. From 1654 to 1698 Harvard boasted an Indian College a little brick house which stood where Matthews...