Word: statesmens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chuffing train from Athens U. S. Minister Lincoln MacVeagh and a quorum of the Greek Cabinet traveled up last week to the northern seaport of Salonika. Base of Allied operations during the War, Salonika was shelled again during the abortive Venizelist revolt last March. This time, however, diplomats and statesmen were going north on a more peaceful mission-to honor one of the most permanent institutions in the Balkans, bearded little old John Henry House of the American Farm School in Salonika...
...country in giving the power to appoint and promote almost exclusively to the body of full professors in each school. The President has only a power of veto which has for obvious reasons been used put rarely. In practice this system has meant that the so-called "elder statesmen" in each department away the destinies of those among the lower ranks and of those who hope for appointment...
Because the three statesmen had been through so many diplomatic campaigns together, Messrs. Eden and Laval wasted few words. Over the consomme, they talked hard & fast. Italy was determined to test her new army by a military campaign in Abyssinia. In normal times London and Paris would have no objection. As a matter of fact it would benefit both France and Britain to have Italy, instead of Japan, gain the upper hand in Africa's last independent empire. But these were not normal times. Abyssinia has been a member of the League of Nations in good standing since...
...statesmen looked sourly at their plates of striped ice cream. In their own rooms members of the League Council sat patiently waiting, paring their nails...
Noting that British airplane stocks are already soaring, Stanley Baldwin last week added: "I hope there will be no profiteering in a time we might call an emergency. ... I have been made almost physically sick to think that I and other statesmen of Europe should, 2,000 years after Christ was crucified, be spending our time thinking how we can take the mangled bodies of children to hospitals and how we can keep poison gas from going down the throats of people...