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...political services. And ostensibly the present bill aims at a continuation of this policy. The peerage would be made one of accomplishment and worth, existing on the grounds of present achievement, rather than on deeds of past centuries. The House of Lords would become the seat of the foremost statesmen in the country. All the dead-wood of the centuries would be cleared away within the span of a single generation. But this result will be accomplished only provided that the measure is considered in absolute good faith by both parties. In the present disturbed situation, it might become...
...literature there are many prominent figures, among whom Kipling, with his genius for short stories and for verse and an occasional gift of true poetry, is the chief. In statesmanship--who is there? The cynic is apt to quote the great Disraeli, saying that "the world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians". In the art of war there is no single outstanding figure, unless the title of Marshall Foch be changed from that of a great patriot to that of a great inctician. It is almost as if, in an age of mass production there were...
...Orleans counts upon the Elder Statesmen to reaffirm the eminently right and wise decision they rendered in the Cohen case last March...
President Harding presented the medal, after Mr. Bacon had been escorted to the Memorial by hundreds of artists and statesmen who walked along the lagoon under the light of torches...
Nicholas Murray Butler, President of Columbia University: "I set out for England on a lecture tour of the English universities. I have been elected to the Athenasum Club, one of the most select in Great Britain- with a membership confined to statesmen, literary men, philosophers, prelates...