Word: statesmen
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Specific provisos which the statesmen concerned hesitated so long to reveal...
...Statesmen seems to reach the summit of power only to see for the first time the bottomless valley of oblivion which lies beyond. Realizing that the paths of political glory lead only to the grave, Premier Benito Mussolini has undertaken the task of insuring his immortality in the less transitory world of letters. The world's most famous virtuoso in political showmanship will make his debut as a playwright with and epic to be produced at the Hungarian National Theater...
...rare capacity can be attributed in part at least to the insignificant place of debating in undergraduate life. The neglect of forensics may be caused by the fact that the universities in this country are not traditionally, as they are in England, training grounds for the nation's statesmen. Although American universities cannot be made replicas of the English in this respect, there are other means of inciting brilliant men to rescue college debating from the nadir into which it has fallen...
...Evidently Cuban statesmen have come to the conclusion that inflation is the cure for depression and, since they cannot inflate the dollar, will strive to create a currency which they can inflate...
...free and vigilant press; but if President Hoover wants to find things out in Russian cities he will have to send spies there. In Moscow, where they know that their own press and that of more than one European country hushes everything that the Government wants hushed. Soviet statesmen believe, not unnaturally, that they are being smart by sending spies everywhere...