Word: statesmanship
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...regret that after such a long record of clean government and progressive statesmanship the Mayor has seen fit to take an unneutral attitude toward the European war. We regret that he has injected himself into the Russell case in New York on the side of those whose bigotry menaces academic liberty. We regret that he has prevented New York citizens from peacefully demonstrating at the French Consulate their objection to having some 90,000 Spanish refugees returned to Franco's tender mercy...
Interviewed yesterday in Eliot House, where he stayed over the weekend after giving a Morris Gray lecture on Friday. Mr. Lewis would not expand on what he meant by the word "win." starting that his real knowledge was of art and literature, not statesmanship. But he did predict that a "reinvigorated democracy" would come out of the present turmoil...
...subjects called him "Ferdinand the Loyal." He was a Hohenzollern from Germany. But he made the decision (it was not forced upon him) to enter the first World War against his own kinsmen in defense of his adopted country. This was not weakness. His statesmanship gave to Rumania universal suffrage and agrarian reform. As a result of the latter measure the peasants-85 per cent of Rumania's population-today own the greater part of the arable land which formerly belonged to the privileged few. These reforms were not weakness...
...Being of Rumanian origin, I appreciate the good words you had to say about the statesmanship of King Carol and of the improvements which he is accomplishing in Rumania...
Charlie Pommer's 68 years, high brow, jutting nose, pince-nez and white-piped vests make him the picture of statesmanship, but not the mouthpiece. Last week some newsmen feared a Democratic victory in Philadelphia might remove Mr. Pommer from his post and their ken. Against that untoward hap, they set about collecting his legendary sayings...