Word: statesmanship
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...Call it "first order statesmanship...
...Mary Peabody; Little, Brown; $5), Mrs. Louise Hall Tharp is too close to the trees of worshipfulrress to see clearly the forest of Mann's contribution. But her book is worth reading, if only as a reminder that Horace Mann was a titan in the field of educational statesmanship...
...Statesmanship does not fit the rules. Political leaders (most of them, according to Psychologist Lehman, not original creative thinkers or artists) are usually not at their best till they are over 50. Moreover, today's statesmen are older, on the average, than in previous epochs. William Pitt the Younger became Prime Minister at 25 in 1784, Sir Winston Churchill not until...
...confidence is a fingers-crossed faith, which could be changed into a thumbs-down rejection, if this time a pro-business Government and private business enterprise muff the ball . . . Sheer business enterprise, motivated solely by self-interest, is not enough . . . It is up to businessmen themselves to add . . . business statesmanship . . . Business [must] think and act as though it had the chief responsibility of solving all the gigantic problems that confront our nation . . . Business [must] have the courage and the common sense to rise above class interest to heights of economic statesmanship, which asks before every private or public move...
Wallace, who has made known in advance that he intends to offer a three point program of liberal statesmanship, was Roosevelt's Vice President from 1940 to 1944. In 1948 he founded and was the presidential candidate for the Progressive Party. He split with the Progressives in 1950 over the issue of intervention in Korea...