Word: statesmens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There are frequently prominent writers, statesmen and men famous in many fields in and about Boston. These men would welcome an opportunity to meet and talk with undergraduates. Students, on the other hand, could find inestimable advantage in personal contacts with great men of the outside world. Besides being a direct inspiration, they would be able to answer questions and clear up problems in the students mind...
...change in caricature was doubtless more sensational to the magazine's staff than to the Washington public, which is now fairly accustomed to seeing statesmen and politicians baited. However some 2,000 copies of the revamped issue were bought in the Capital. Usual sale there is about 1,000. Instigator of the change is The Washingtoman's new General Manager Frederick G. Brownell, onetime editor & publisher of Buffalo Town Tidings, brother-in-law of Editor Peter Yischer of Polo. Mrs. Marion Banister, sister of Senator Carter Glass of Virginia, continues as editrix. Newsmen Robert S. Allen, George Abell...
Observers and statesmen agree that the 72nd Congress, which convenes Dec. 7, will be one of the most momentous sessions in U. S. history. It will have to ratify or reject President Hoover's moratorium on Europe's debts. With a huge Treasury deficit on hand, it will have to debate taxation. At the same time it will debate a national Dole and, though the American Legion voted self-denial, there will be a fight to pay the Bonus in cash, in part if not in full. With Bar, Labor and Legion behind them, the Wet members will...
...price to pay for Indian liberty!" Three Freedom Tests, Aside from answering the Commoners' questions, Mr. Gandhi made a two-hour-long speech in conversational tones, told the House roundly that he, speaking for the Indian National Congress, will not accept those "safeguards" and "reservations" with which British statesmen are trying to hedge the new Indian Constitution now being drafted in London. "The tests by which Indians will know whether they are free," postulated St. Gandhi, "are whether they have been granted control of Indian defense, the Indian Civil Service and Indian finance" -these being precisely the things Britons...
...goodwill visit of Premier Laval and Foreign Minister Aristide Briand to Berlin-first official German visit of any French statesmen since French Foreign Minister William Henry Waddington * led a French delegation to the Congress of Berlin in 1878-produced but one concrete result last week: It proved that the Government of German Chancellor Heinrich Brüning is powerful enough to provide an enthusiastic welcome for anybody. On the Frenchmen's arrival nobody was allowed near Friedrich Strasse station but policemen and members of the Reichsbanner, organized into cheering sections. Outside the Hotel Adlon handpicked pedestrians marshalled by detectives...