Word: statesmanship
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Wanted: A Policy. Such a policy, apparently, has not yet been formulated. Or, if it has, it is still a deep secret. U.S. military policy is clear: blow upon blow until all resistance is crushed. But the application of shrewd statesmanship might save the final enforcement of that policy -and countless U.S. lives...
...cinema industry in December, 1921, when these and other pioneer cinemagnates asked Postmaster General William Harrison Hays to become their leader at a salary of $100,000 a year. Since his acceptance a month later, Will Hays has achieved what Raymond Moley considers a marvelous record of industrial statesmanship. In this history, ex-New Dealer Moley mainly confines himself to an objective, minutely detailed recitation of facts and figures, but an introduction clearly states his point: cinema's self-regulation is a splendid example of how business can stay out of the government's "paralyzing" clutches...
...twelve leading representatives of the worlds of science, letters, statesmanship, and naval strategy Harvard awarded honorary degrees this afternoon at Commencement exercises in Sever Quadrangle. The recipients, in the order in which the degrees were present, the citations read by President Conant, and biographical data...
...career was shaped by: 1) two wars; 2) life inside the narrow horizons of a small farm; and 3) an early political career in a machine that knew little and cared less for broad-scale statesmanship. Son of a Missouri farmer, he went no farther than high school before setting to work. He was a timekeeper for the Santa Fe Railroad in Kansas City, wrapped papers for the Star, clerked in a bank. Then he went back to the farm until World War I swept him in. A longtime National Guardsman, he went to France a captain, won commendation...
...What statesmanship! What vision! What power! We have known nothing like it since my ancestor, Peter the Great, broke a window into Europe by overrunning the Baltic states in the 18th Century. Stalin has made Russia great again...