Word: statesmen
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...this curt outline of his genealogy, William Hoppe, billiard "champion of champions," opens his autobiography,* proceeds to tell how he learned to play billiards when he was so small that h' had to stand upon a chair; how he won the world's championship, played before kings, statesmen, presidents; how Mark Twain, that voluble billiard-fan, told him a funny story; how he toured the world with Jacob Schaefer, "the Wizard." Hoppe defeated Jake Schaefer, but the old man trained his son, young Jake, to take revenge. Once, indeed, young Jake defeated Hoppe, took the title...
...came in contact, now with men approximating those mythical beings called "statesmen,"-men like Hughes, Hoover and Mellon-men who dealt in generalities which had hardly touched him. He had a few contacts with this group and with the financial group whom he had now to deal with. There was Frank W. Stearns, Boston department-store owner, who had been his backer and adviser. He grappled Stearns to him in this contingency. He renewed an older contact with some of his Amherst classmates and associates-men like Dwight W. Morrow. He had been living in a quite different world from...
Whether or not this situation actually constituted a legal or other monopoly, it undoubtedly would furnish a convenient talking point for our trustbusting statesmen, and the General Electric knew it. Therefore, while Senator Norris fulminated in Washington, the company's Board of Directors met, and voted to turn over the Electric Bond & Share Co. to a new corporation, whose stock would then be distributed share for share to the existing General Electric stockholders. This was, in a general way, the method adopted by the Government in breaking up the old "Standard Oil Trust" in 1911; its employment...
...cannot but express my gratification for the opportunity I have had to become more intimately acquainted with the statesmen and peoples of Europe, particularly in this country; to learn more of their national aspirations and social and economic conditions. It has been to me an instructive' and interesting experience...
...agents of Russia, Bulgaria, Turkey and Austria anxiously watching their credit against the time when he decides to sell. A cartoon once depicted him ? a thin, awkward composed figure ? standing upon an elevation from which, with deprecating gesture, he tossed down handfuls of grain to grubby statesmen who scrambled for them at his feet. Ludicrously exaggerated as this depiction appeared, what it implied was, as a generality, correct; nor did it err in what it suggested as to the thinness, mildness, composure of Trader Cutten. Such a man he is. He lives on a dirt farm...