Word: statesmanship
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...days later, having issued this challenge to statesmanship, Representative Luce keynoted a Republican convention at Appleton, Wis. Her speech was a model of partisan politics...
...time when statesmanship is so vitally needed, Senator Vandenberg, one of our more prominent Politics Firsters, can do no better than to dream up General Douglas MacArthur for the Republican Presidential nomination (TIME, May 17). A perfect example of Old Guard sappidity...
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...