Word: statesmen
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...American statesmen last week had good reason to curse the Kings of Spain for their cavalier treatment of their dependencies. It was not until 1740 that Philip V determined the boundary between his viceroyalties of Santa Fe and of Lima. This is the line which Ecuador now claims as her southern boundary. Peru, claiming a boundary far to the north and west, bases her case on the fact that when her constitution was proclaimed in 1821 three of the four disputed provinces adhered...
...nations. Ecuador thought Peru was trying to settle the dispute by pure force. In Washington, Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro and Bogotá diplomats hastened to proffer their good offices, hoping that at this time, of all times, the Americas would not get to fighting among themselves. But while statesmen took counsel together, 15,000 people marched through the streets of Quito, waving flags, stood bareheaded before the statue of Simon Bolivar and sang the Ecuadorian national anthem...
...chairman of the Finance Committee, he steered through the Senate New Deal legislation which made him wince and blink-a man as loyal as he was able, who, if he had had a little more energy, might have gone down in history as one of America's great statesmen...
...Henry ("Mill-boy of the Slashes") Clay. His exact language seems to be in dispute. Bartlett puts it: "So brilliant, yet so corrupt, which, like a rotten mackerel by moonlight, shines and stinks." Personally one better likes the version employed in the life of Randolph, in The American Statesmen series of biographies: "Like a mackerel in the moonlight, he shined and stank...
...paced the deck of the imperial yacht that summer evening in 1908, the Kaiser must have recalled Clovis the Frank, who carved a kingdom out of Gaul and South Germany in the 5th Century; and of Pepin the Young and his bastard son Charles Martel, statesmen rather than warlords, who founded the Carolingian Dynasty, the greatest ever to rule Germany. And of Charles the Great Carolingian, whose Empire stretched from the Elbe to the Ebro...