Word: gradualist
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...constantly submits that faith to rigorous analysis and criticism. A man determined not to confine his ideals to noble platitudes, but to afford them real meaning by comparison of various concrete approximations of those ideals. And, finally, not a revolutionist, yet something more than a gradualist--a believer in "rapid evolution...
...Byrnes's reputation is that of a skillful compromiser, able to compel agreement by patience, charm of manner and an elastic mind. He has the realism-and sometimes the cynicism-of the profes sional politician. All of the evidence is that he is essentially conservative, a gradualist in all his thinking. On one major point Secretary Byrnes will certainly agree with President Truman: U.S. policy will be much more American than Anglo-American. Jimmy Byrnes will be with the President in any strong and specific assertion of U.S. rights and interests...
...Labor Government made him Secretary of State for Dominions and Colonies, elevated him to the peerage in 1929, she refused to assume his title. Famed for their 1909 "Minority Report" on British poor laws and for their subsequent crusade (backed by Winston Churchill) to prevent public destitution, the gradualist Webbs spent their lives investigating and reporting. Bernard Shaw called them "walking encyclopedias." In 1932 and 1934 they and their inevitable swarm of secretary-researchers visited Russia, gathered the data for their notable Soviet Communism: A New Civilization...