Word: statesmanship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Subservience before the boss is a talent of statesmanship which Harry Truman mastered to perfection. Endless readiness to serve his Wall Street master-this is what finally took the small Missourian to the White House. . . . Let Vandenberg, Byrnes, Dulles, Hoover manager him, and let Clark Clifford . . . write his speeches for him. Let Truman only read them tolerably well. Thus Harry Truman has become the clerk of American imperialism. . . . He no longer says, as formerly, that he never takes political decisions without consulting his wife. He knows now with whom to consult! . . . In his squeaky voice already is heard the sound...
...awarded NSA a seat on its American commission to speak officially for this country's widely-dispersed millions of youth. Such authoritative recognition for the fledgling body has come only because of the imposing conduct of the young men and women at Madison. They strutted maturity and the best statesmanship of their generation...
...prolific mothers, a Mrs. Fitzgerald, paid impartial homage to statesmanship by calling her eighth Eamon, her ninth Winston; Mrs. Noonan named her 13th and 14th Pius and Pascal. A connoisseur of hospitals, Mrs. Noonan scorned the nurses who had attended her on the occasion of Padraic. "Nosey. They was that nosey that they turned out me locker for to clean it. Quare sort of cleaning they gev it. Examinin' me belongin's. Jest because I had put away a couple of biscuits and crunchies and some fish and chips me cousin got me and pickled pigs' trotters...
Congress, adjourning at the end of this week, probably not to meet again until next January, can pride itself on having been active enough in its seven-month session, but in too many things it has willingly failed. Broadly, the reason has been a confusion of statesmanship and politics, leading to such asinine Republican challenges as. "No tax relief, no European relief." Sinking back comfortably into their trust in man's supposed basic selfishness, these Congressional leaders based their political hopes on a fantastic combination of a brave, new isolationism and a hideous fear of Russia. But while a great...
...auto workers, the plan was as revolutionary as Henry Ford's $5-a-day wage in 1914. This time it was Henry Ford II who pioneered in industrial statesmanship. He agreed to U.A.W. demands for a pension plan covering the Ford Motor Co.'s 107,000 workers in the Rouge and 32 other plants. The union estimates that some 5,000 workers are eligible for retirement at once...