Word: statesman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Laurent has something of the stature of an elder statesman but he has never been a rough & ready politician. No other Liberal has St. Laurent's qualification: widespread support in both French and English Canada. But in the give & take of practical politics...
...advice came not a minute too soon. The Republican Convention had proved that most people's unretouched faces look terrible on the TV screen (TIME, July 5). Helena Rubinstein leaped into the breach with television preparations suitable for statesman or starlet...
...administrative skill, and admired him for his ability to command the loyalty of top-notch aides, a variety of Republicans felt he was not the kind of man they could cotton to. Old Guardists could love John Bricker, young folks could idealize Harold Stassen. others could be devoted to Statesman Vandenberg. Dewey, it was variously said, was too mechanically precise to be liked, too watchfully unbending to be confided in, too coldly ambitious to be loved. Few if any Republicans doubted that Dewey's administration could be counted on to get things done with competence and tidy dispatch...
...Chosen to administer ERP through the Economic Cooperation Administration, was: 1. Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch. 2. Defense Secretary James Forrestal. 3. General Electric President Charles Wilson. 4. Herbert Hoover. 5. Studebaker President Paul Hoffman...
Last week, from 650 entries, the New Statesman ran some rib-tickling winners: ¶ I am sparkling; you are unusually talkative; he is drunk...