Word: statemanship
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...There is a South that finds expression in the crude and blatant utterances of men like Cole Blease and Vardaman, and another that finds expression in the statemanship of men like Carter Glass and Oscar Underwood. There is a South that practices and justifies lynching and another South that believes it is unjustifiable under any and all circumstances...
...place though scarcely tedious. The fact of essential interest is that he went out to India five years ago and found it seething with unrest. As everyone knows, India is now, if not*** calm, at least much calmer. The little bourgeois from London marts has performed marvels of constructive statemanship...
...profiting by a knowledge of the reasons for the success of our athletes, will develop to the full limit their eyes, their ears, their nerves and their muscles, and enter the game of life trained to knock out "home runs" in their chosen callings? The superman, whether in baseball, statemanship or industry, is only the average man plus a little additional efficiency, both mental and physical, a little more will-power and "pep". Boston Evening Transcript
...stock-jobbing timidity, the Baboo kind of statemanship, which is clamored for at this moment by the men who put monetary gain before national honor, or who are still intellectually in a state of colonial dependence on England, would in the end most assuredly invite war. A temperate but resolute insistence upon our rights is the surest way to secure peace. If Harvard men wish peace with honor they will heartily support the national executive and national legislature in the Venezuela matter; will demand that our representatives insist upon the strictest application of the Monroe Doctrine; and will farther demand...
...Stone '93, proceeded to show that this charge was almost groundless and that it was brought up to help defeat Mr. Blaine in his presidential campaign. The speaker recounted Mr. Blaine's public history and his career in inactivity and showed with what great statemanship he had settled our international difficulties and established a system of reciprocity. As a scholar, his two chief works are the book entitled "Twenty Years in Congress," the recognized authority on the history of the United States from 1863 to 1884 and his controversy with Mr. Gladstone, which was a complete victory. The presidency needs...