Word: statesmanship
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...should be remembered that TIME, because of its superlative quality (originally), and brevity (always), is read not only by adults, but by a host of college and school students, whom it should strive to help by presenting the highest type of statesmanship, rather than by smearing its pages with the cheap verbosity of indiscreet politicians. McKlNLEY ROBBIXS...
...have believed that sportsmanship and statesmanship called for the elimination of harsh personalities between opponents...
...associates, his claims to ill-treatment at the hands of all his contemporaries, his unctuous self-righteousness, his constant imputation of the worst of motives and conduct, we are moved to something like active dislike of the man. But . . . spotless probity . . . robust Americanism . . . fearless patriotism . . . high statesmanship...
...heroic efforts to balance the Federal Budget with the 1932 Revenue Act won him wide acclaim, was turned down partly on the charge that, friendly to the "Power Trust," he saddled the 3% electricity levy upon consumers. Nominee Russell, brightest of 13 brothers & sisters, proposes, as a sample of statesmanship, to collect the War Debts by severing diplomatic and commercial relations with Europe and forbidding U. S. banks to accept foreign exchange. The Crisp-Russell campaign was hot & heavy with each side trying to Klux the other with the charge of favoring Catholics for public office. Senator Walter Franklin George...
Today, a fortnightly published at Sydney, Australia, last March carried an article entitled "Roosevelt II of U. S. A.?" Excerpts: "Franklin D. Roosevelt . . . has become America's most prominent figure. Statesmanship is in his blood. Theodore ['Teddy'] Roosevelt was his uncle. . . . On social questions he inclines to the left. . . . The most likely Republican nominee for Vice-President is Nicholas Roosevelt, who, as Governor of Costa Rica in the Caribbean, has been bringing the blessings of American civilisation to that negroid dependency of the U. S. A. Nicholas is Teddy's son."* Last May the Sao Paulo...