Word: statesmen
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...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...
...must have the offspring from these families, from which to get our statesmen, and to replenish our cities...
...final plenary session intent only on signing everything that needed signing and still catching the night boat for gay and glamorous Buenos Aires. On long tables Conference secretaries had placed what seemed to be treaties and agreements, each open at the last page for signatures. Jostling and squabbling the statesmen scrambled to squiggle. Delegates of several countries who had told the Conference they would not sign the Treaty on Women's Equal Civil & Political Rights rushed up to it with pens poised and were only stopped from signing by pickets hostile to the Treaty who kept loudly calling...
...mighty mingling of Indian war whoops and LaL., cheers, the soldiers of Bolivia and Paraguay stopped fighting in the swampy jungles of the Gran Chaco last week. Suddenly the chatter of tropical birds again seemed loud. Just before the eleven-day "Christmas Truce" was arranged by League of Nations statesmen (see p. 11 )-last year's Chaco "Christmas Truce" was arranged by Pope Pius XI-battling Paraguay pressed her recent supreme offensive to capture Bolivia's Fort Munoz. Whether Munoz. was captured just before or just after the truce's zero hour was a question...