Word: courteousness
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...Barry Locke of the Izaak Walton League screwed up his courage, wrote a letter to Senator Harrison asking point-blank what truth there was in the rumor that he had used his influence to bring the Walley brothers' case to its shocking conclusion. Back came a prompt and courteous reply. "To the extent that I had known these young men and their parents over a great number of years," wrote the Senator, "I did attest to their character. ... If my letter to the District Attorney asking for leniency brought any results, I am very happy...
...takes two sides to make an issue, and in the California campaign which followed, Alf M. Landon was definitely not an issue. Puffed by Hearstpapers, he got courteous treatment, many a kind word from Hoover supporters. Their cry: Is William Randolph Hearst, a New York Democrat, to become master of California Republicanism? When California Republicans marched to the polls last week and said "no" by 344,000 votes to 256,000, that verdict was almost universally interpreted as a thoroughgoing rebuff to William Randolph Hearst and Frank F. Merriam...
...Dunn, 39-year-old War veteran who in 1934 defeated Rev. W. Lycurgus Spinks for his House seat, uprose to boom in a bullfrog voice: "I have not been boisterous since I became a freshman in this Congress. ... I have been the recipient of so many kind and courteous favors from my senior colleagues, until it makes me feel fainty. ... I want you to go with me to a place down at 311 D Street, NW, in the city of Washington...
...noise of an airplane. Looking up, they spied an old trimotored Ford belonging to Compania Mexicana de Aviación, a subsidiary of Pan American Airways Chartered half an hour before by Hamburg-American Line, the plane was chugging its way from Mexico City to Guatemala. The courteous Mexican pilot had detoured from the regular course because he wished to show his country's most celebrated peaks to Prince Adolf of Schaumburg-Lippe, who renounced the throne of a tiny Teutonic principality in 1918; his wife; Baron Siegmund von Stieber; seven other European trippers...
...handsome man who looked and acted far younger than his 57 years. He won their admiration at once by the thoroughness and courage with which he tackled Hopkins' troubles. On the human side, however, they found him harder to know, wondered for a time what was behind his courteous, smiling but aloof manner. They have now decided that it is chiefly an intense absorption in his job. After eight months, most of the strangeness between Baltimore and President Bowman has worn off, and his sincerity and honesty are universally conceded. But a remark still frequently heard around city...