Word: statesmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Protestant churchmen busied themselves last week in the statesmen's world. In the silver ballroom of the Hotel Cleveland, 460 bishops, preachers, missionaries and other delegates to the National Study Conference on the Churches and World Order wrestled with a troublous subject: U.S. leadership in world affairs. They had an expert and conscientious coach. From the moment U.N. Delegate John Foster Dulles ended his opening address (TIME, March 14), most of the delegates looked to him for guidance on the question for which he had done his best to prepare them: the North Atlantic Security Pact (see INTERNATIONAL...
Bernard Baruch, 78, accepting the honorary chairmanship of the Hearst national oratory contest, had some advice for members of the younger generation who aspire to be elder statesmen: "Ability and facility to express an idea is almost as important as the idea itself...
...that there were no muskets at Cressy. The second was due to forgivable abbreviation in the press; what I said was that there had been as much advance in military destructiveness between Cressy (1346) and 1939 as between 1939 and Hiroshima; and that the increased destructiveness had not deterred statesmen from making...
House Republicans would deal with the party's future in a down-to-earth style. Said one leading Republican: "The trouble with us is that we tried to be statesmen for the last two years and forgot about politics. In the next two years we're going to think more about the ballot...
...store and the village market, at the tea table and the union meeting. It is taken by corporations examining their books, by housewives scribbling a market list, by farmers squinting at a crop of wheat. Until the voice of a free people is heard clearly, few major decisions of statesmen can carry the power of democracy's full force...