Word: statesmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nine cabinet officers, twenty-one U. S. Senators, 39 Representatives, three Supreme Court Justices, 12 governors, and 39 judges. The ones who didn't make the grade wound up as lawyers. This record caused Woodrow Wilson to later call the Princeton of that period "a seminary of statesmen...
...from 1932-35, Premier Inukaita Finance Minister, a War Office General, and Baron Dan all appeared, posthumously, to have lost the confidence of the public. As time went on, the rules of the game became better established, so that it was no longer necessary actually to hit the offending statesmen. By public acceptance, of the sort that makes such practices as the evil eye and sticking pins in dolls so effective, it became sufficient to pick out some representative of the opposition and fire a few shots in his direction...
...problems of today. They have been too busy lobbying for or against things they thought were good or bad for banking. It is time, Sproul told an audience of bankers in St. Louis last week, for bankers to exchange "the role of pressure groups for the role of banking statesmen." No one in banking speaks with a voice heard by the public. "The banking community . . . has left it to others to propose broad legislation programs and to devise changes in our banking and credit system . . . It has allowed itself to be cast in the role of opposition or resistance...
...each night when the show ended, the screen quickly returned to TV reality. Scarcely had the voices of the world-juggling statesmen died away when, after station identification, viewers were treated to some such rousing chorus as "My beer is Rheingold, the dry beer! Think of Rheingold whenever you buy beer...
...Europe," a continent free from the Atlantic to the Soviet border; he considers the "little Europe" envisaged by projects like the Schuman Plan a trap on the road to his larger objective. This all-or-nothing attitude makes the Socialist boss a hard man for the West's statesmen to deal with. It also cuts down Schumacher's popularity in western Germany...