Word: courteousness
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Before Congressional committees he is decisive, clear, unbending, aloof. Impersonally courteous, he never descends to personalities, never lets his collar wilt when the questioning is hot, seldom raises his voice, but never wavers. The result is that Congress is often antagonistic. A few Congressmen have a grudging admiration for him. Many, particularly on the Republican side, dismiss him in angry words, usually adding that he is a doddering...
...partners have had a financial incentive to get business for it. Final question was whether United Corp., which J. P. Morgan put together in 1929, is subject to Morgan political control. Describing the demeanor of United's George Howard toward Morgan's George Whitney as one of "courteous fealty," SEC decided there was control. It added that Morgan, Stanley had, since its formation in 1935, obtained substantially all bond underwriting done by all the companies in the United system; and that it has headed no utility financing outside the United group...
...correspondents could remember only one Roosevelt speech like it: at Franklin Field in Philadelphia, when he had said before 100,000 people, on his acceptance of the nomination in 1936, that this generation had a rendezvous with destiny. The correspondent of the official German news agency, courteous Kurt Sell, had telephoned an advance text of the speech to Berlin, quietly left the hall before the President began to deliver...
...agree about politics, finally come together, it means big news, either good or bad. All three - Mesdames Chiang Kaishek. H. H. Kung, Sun Yat-sen - were in Hong Kong to welcome Currie, and give him, after an 11,183 -mile flight, a "washing dust" reception - a most courteous ceremony, reserved for distinguished visitors who are theoretically tired and dusty after a long journey. Thereafter, honors and interviews; two weekends with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek at his mountain hideaway; inspection of an aviation training school, where a Chinese band ground out The Star-Spangled Banner] a review of 1,000 cadets...
Informed that the White House was being renovated, Wendell Willkie cracked: "I think that is a very courteous thing to do for your successor." When he was asked whom he expected the Democrats to put up against him: "I hope President Roosevelt is renominated . . . I'd like to beat him ... I want to meet the champ...