Word: visional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first vision came when he was five, his great vision four years later. In it he saw a mythological panorama of his people's fate, was promised magical powers to save. He was carried to the centre of the world ("anywhere is the centre of the world") on the top of Harney Peak in the black Hills. ". . . Beneath me was the whole hoop of the world. And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw. ... I saw that the sacred hoop of my people was one of many hoops...
...sober brilliance of a thoughtful man. His life was determined by essential principles of which he never lost sight. He was a gentleman reared in and almost feudal civilization, maintaining to the last the virtues and the blemishes of that civilization. He was a leader of bright, if restricted vision, a politician of sound, if conventional theory, a man of careful, tranquil thought. Like Lincoln he possessed that rare ability of assessing human values...
...MacDonald, Prime Minister of Great Britain, was scheduled to go to Geneva last week to plead for the peace of the world. He did not go. Instead, he retired to a nursing home to be operated on for what his doctors called "a slight and progressive diminution of the vision of the left eye," and the precise press called glaucoma (hardening of the eyeball). His King, Chancellor Bruning, Secretary of State Stimson, Premier Mussolini all sent telegrams of sympathy. The delicate operation, performed by Dr. William Stewart Duke-Elder, was successful. Prime Minister MacDonald planned to return to work...
These two men, with such different personalities, first began to work together in 1929 when Mr. Giannini, anticipating his retirement, looked for a leader to replace him. Mr. Walker, he thought, possessed prestige as well as brilliance and was a man of broad enough vision to carry on the dreams of the branch banking and in vestment empire which Transamerica rep resented. Soon after Mr. Giannini retired friction became apparent. Friends of Mr. Walker think that when, in the early part of 1930, he became fully familiar with the task ahead of him, he was aghast at the true situation...
...Baker, both by character and by experience is best qualified to make the necessary contacts to that end. His wartime position brought him into relation with the chief leaders of modern Europe. Moreover, through his former connection with Woodrow Wilson, he is associated with the most-far-sighted political vision in modern American thought. Having renounced immediate entrance in the Leaque, he remains eminently qualified to steer the delicate middle course between entanglement in foreign affairs and comparative isolation...