Word: servante
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...Servant Robert." At the start of the week, Taft, taking the wheel himself, drove from Washington to Baltimore for a meeting with the Maryland delegation. Asked if he had won any of them to his side, he said: "They just don't rush up to you and say, 'Now we're for you.' It just doesn't happen, that's all. It hasn't happened to General Eisenhower either." Commented Governor Theodore McKeldin, favorite-son candidate to whom the Maryland delegation is committed: "The understanding in this state is that...
...gloried in being called a conservative. Conant adopted a policy of cautious approval of the New Deal as a worthwhile experiment. His attitude came forth most clearly in 1935 in his awarding of an honorary degree to Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace and in the accompanying citation: "A public servant of deep faith and high integrity who finds courage to attempt an uncharted journey in our modern wilderness." This citation, written by Conant who takes great care in preparing them each spring, shows his feeling as explicitly as possible, since he has made it a rule never to engage...
...chief in 1943, Haley took it. In nine months he was promoted to director general, was responsible for the "Light Program," Britain's most popular, and the famed highbrow "Third Program." Even though BBC's board is appointed by the government, Haley was no subservient government servant. Fleet Streeters expect that at the Times Sir William will also run his own show. For many years the Times often behaved as if it were the unofficial voice of the government, no matter what the government's political stripe. But since World War II, the Times has followed...
...sixth child and only son of a Prussian civil servant, Kurt Schumacher was born in the town of Kulm on the Vistula. It is now a part of Poland-to Schumacher a constant reminder of Germany's dismemberment in two wars. He went into the Kaiser's army in the summer of 1914, but in less than six months his soldiering was over, his arm gone. In an army hospital, he taught himself in two weeks to write lefthanded. Disgusted with "the Kaiser's war," he turned to Socialism, read Marx and was impressed, read Lenin...
Citation: "Experienced and able leader in the economic and political life of his native country, Norway. Courageous public servant during its time of travail. Now, as Secretary General of the United Nations Organization, a distinguished leader in the world's best hope for peace...