Word: realistically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Germans call Erhard "Herr Optimist." Says Erhard: "I'm no optimist, but a realist who knows the capacity of free-market economy...
...Days After. Europe's most successful realist has risen in classically enterprising fashion from hamble origins. Born Feb. 4, 1897 in the town of Fürth near Nürnberg in Franconia, he was the son of a peasant boy who left his farm to open a dry goods store in town. Badly wounded by a shell at Ypres, Corporal Ludwig Erhard returned home too weak to work in the store. He stayed on at Nürnberg's Commercial College, found his vocation in economics, went on to take his doctor's degree at Frankfurt...
...without the face-losing last resort of calling in the troops. But Renison hopes to be able to persuade Jagan to set up a moderate government that can start easing the colony down the road to self-rule. Jagan claims that he is anxious to please. "I am a realist," he says soothingly. "The British government can still exercise full control even though internal self-government is conceded...
...views may be faulted as narrow, or behind the political and social times, he has never been identified with the fanatic right. Thus, unlike some of the Neanderthals he admires, e.g., Nevada's late Senator Pat McCarran, Wisconsin's late Senator Joe McCarthy, Lawrence is a realist in world affairs; he has vigorously supported the League of Nations, the U.N., NATO, the Marshall Plan, long-term foreign...
Political Realist Brownell knows how desperate a fight the South's congressional bloc will make against his program. He recognizes the extent of his personal, out-front involvement. But even if he could, he would not now retire to a back room. For the Attorney General is the servant of a Constitution which recognizes that law without freedom is tyranny, and that freedom without law is anarchy. It is in this role of servant that the Attorney General of the U.S. says: "No higher duty rests upon the man holding my office than of translating each provision...