Word: stateswoman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...them were sincerely bewildered products of the most subtle and effective press censorship in the world, a censorship whose chief weapon is constant official British reiteration that "there is no British censorship."* A distinguished British Innocent Abroad of the week was Miss Irene Mary Bewick Ward, M.P., a Conservative stateswoman accustomed to deliver to women's clubs in all parts of the world a lecture entitled Whether British Democracy Can Outlive European Dictatorship. Although she en joys the reputation of "always smiling," Miss Ward, M.P., for once looked grim after telling reporters: "I can assure you that I know...
...came to look alike. As his silent partner she exercised great influence over Wisconsin politics and he affectionately referred to her as "the counselor," fondly recalled "when we were Governor." She stumped for him during his Presidential canvass of 1924, made many a vote with her sound political sense. Stateswoman though she was, she would never accept public office. When Senator La Follette died in 1925, she refused. Progressive pleadings to take his seat at the Capitol, designated "Young Bob" as his father's successor, continued to serve as an adviser of quiet wisdom...
Upsetting to statesmen, hours and days of such pessimistic talk had an almost hysterical effect on the leading stateswoman present, Britain's Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health, Miss Susan Lawrence. Eagerly she snatched at a swarthy Indian delegate's proposal that the League spend $20,000 on a "scientific study" of Depression. When a thrifty Dutchman objected that "such a sum, in the circumstances, might seem extravagant," Miss Lawrence bounded quivering to her feet...