Word: statesmens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington the manifesto, as correspondents soon found, was treated by President Hoover and Cabinet as "political dynamite." As the day was Saturday prominent statesmen made all haste to play golf...
From Tokyo Count Nobuaki Makino, Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal, went to Okitsu to visit Prince Kimmochi Saionji, 92, last of the Genro (elder statesmen). It was the second time the wise old oracle had been consulted this month. Because Count Makino is prudent, peaceable, potent, observers deduced that something good, important would come from the visit. But Count Makino said nothing, reminded newshawks that he never gives interviews on trains...
...Seven of the Geneva Conference? finished making their initial proposals last week. Having done so, statesmen of the Big Seven showed extreme disinclination to hear the proposals of 50 in ore nations. Thus some of them did not hear what the people of the United States of Brazil, which is in desperate financial straits, have paid handsomely to have said for them in Geneva...
Five million American women, members of eleven organizations represented in Geneva by the National Committee on the Cause & Cure of War, unqualifiedly endorsed every one of U. S. Chief Delegate Gibson's nine points last week and predicted that every one will be adopted. Other women backed other statesmen and their points...
...main dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria Western Union Telegraph Co. installed complete cable and telegraph stations and three translux machines to flash messages of congratulation as they poured in from rulers, statesmen, educators and dignitaries in the four corners of the world. Ready for the diners' inspection were nine of the ten extant oil-paintings (among them an Orpen, a La very, a Salisbury*) of the man they were honoring. Elaborate souvenir programs and menus were printed. Two dollar Wedgwood plates depicting Columbia scenes were to be distributed to each & every guest. New York's Bishop William Thomas Manning would...