Word: statesmens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recalled Governor Landon's 25% reduction of State salaries in 1933, headlined: LANDON SAVES $100,000,000. "They are beating a path to the door of the Kansas Governor," cried Universal Service, "who has lifted the burden from his people. Financiers, economists, authors, writers and statesmen have poured into Topeka in endless procession. . . . Taxpayers from the Atlantic to the Pacific have besieged Landon with requests to come and tell 'how Kansas has done...
...universally Fascist, rise to your feet! Let the cry of your determination rise to the skies and reach our soldiers in East Africa. It is the cry of Justice and of Victory!" Secreted in the Dictator's frenzy-rousing speech was a pledge of peculiar interest to Geneva statesmen who, while feeling that the League must save its face by voting "sanctions," desperately hope these will not provoke II Duce to war in Europe. The Dictator pledged, "To economic sanctions we shall answer with our discipline, our spirit of sacrifice, our obedience." This of course was topped with...
...very real" (TIME, Aug. 26), the Japanese Government applied pressure which forced Generalissimo Chiang to oblige Mr. Wang to get well overnight and carry on as Premier. "Japan Is Fully Prepared." Premier Wang and his Cabinet play their roles as a coop full of apparently chicken- hearted Chinese statesmen who have actually served champagne and drunk complimentary toasts with the Japanese Ambassador while Chinese troops were being mowed down by Japanese machine guns in North China (TIME, June 24). To their credit the Chinese Government have the magnificent negative achievement that they have not yet been forced to extend official...
Cocktails & Sanctions. Ever since President Woodrow Wilson's ideals congealed into the League of Nations its best friends have rated it brittle. Fearing their cherished instrument would snap like an icicle if used against a Great Power, League statesmen have pussyfooted for 15 long years. They let Poland conquer a good third of Lithuania and seize its then capital Vilna, which Poland still holds. They let Japan master four rich Chinese provinces. No sanctions were imposed to stop bloodshed between Bolivia and Paraguay. Though the League's own charter or Covenant is part of the Treaty of Versailles...
...Byzantine eunuch is a symbol of strength compared with the Teachers' Oath Bill, in which nowhere can one find the slightest penalty provided for its violation. Evidently the statesmen of Massachusetts believe that the wish is the father to the thought, and that once the virtue of patriotism has been given the force of legality, it will become a part of the temperament of the teachers of the Commonwealth...