Word: statesmanship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sooner or later according to all past experiences this postwar period of prosperity will end in a depression unless we adopt a positive program to maintain full employment. This is the great new field of economic statesmanship. Our modern highly urbanized, highly industrialized sections can no longer stand the social strain and economic shock of great depressions...
...compelled to admit that Franklin Roosevelt is the most unaccountable and on the whole the most enemy-baffling President that this United States has ever seen. He has added a certain vast impudent courage to a vivid but constructive imagination and he has displayed his capacity for statesmanship in the large and simple billboard language that the common people can understand. . . . Well, darn your smiling old picture, here it is! Here, reluctantly amid seething and snorting, it is. We, who hate your gaudy guts, salute...
...Every time you see his name in the papers you can see his face, hear him rolling his "r's" or slurring his "g's." Everything you read or hear about him is colored by those visual impressions of weakness or strength, ignorance or knowledge, charlatanism or statesmanship you received when you last saw him. And when you see his name in the papers, he is not just a name any longer...
...Mundt resolution was more than a significant straw in the wind. It was also a challenge to statesmanship. He also urged all other pre-Pearl Harbor isolationists-among whom there were many of unquestioned sincerity and patriotism-to back his stand...
...think the article "Business in 1942" in the Dec. 28 issue of TIME is the clearest exposition of business principles I have ever read. It is a direct challenge to the statesmanship of American business...