Word: statesmanship
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...which began as a straight political move, accepted rumors, facts, alarms, nevertheless succeeded despite its flounderings, or perhaps because of them, in startling the victorious North with a picture of the desperate state of mind of the defeated South. Few correspondents would give Chairman Dies credit for statesmanship. Many held him only a showman. Some considered him a dangerous demagogue; some gave credit for the Committee's more effective work to Investigator J. B. Matthews and Attorney Rhea Whitley. But the Committee's cumulative findings suggested that Chairman Dies's perpetually scandalized method of listening to everybody...
Being told what he must do is constitutionally distasteful to Franklin Roosevelt. Being told what he must do in case war breaks out in the world, he considers-and Secretary of State Hull agrees with him-to be a handicap to statesmanship. In seeking revision of the Neutrality law which Congress fastened upon him two years ago, Mr. Roosevelt this year sought primarily to remove his obligation to declare an embargo on "implements of war" for belligerents. The revised Neutrality act offered in the House last month by New York's prognathous Sol Bloom was drawn with this...
Miss Perkins: "Certainly ... I believe that is called statesmanship...
...availability, the rectitude of her impulses, her statesmanship and her popularity become increasingly apparent, I wonder how many others may have had the same thought: Anna Eleanor Roosevelt for our next President. It would be an experience to have the country ruled from the distaff side of the house, in terms of women's impulses. And Anna Eleanor Roosevelt looks like the logical solution to the problem confronting the liberal Democrats...
...Interpreters could think of no provocation for Mussolini's sarcastic phrase "convivial vociferation," except the facts: 1) that Senator Pittman sometimes mixes good Bourbon with his statesmanship; 2) in December he abruptly announced...