Word: statesman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...markets from India to South America. In Great Britain, heavily bombed in the war, the steel industry is now among the world's most modern. Britain's biggest steel company is United Steel Companies Ltd., whose chairman, Sir Walter Benton Jones, 78, is the elder statesman of British steel. Says Sir Walter: "I think of nothing during the week but United Steel, and on weekends I think of my garden and my home...
Directly hit by the strike were London's influential weeklies. The liberal New Statesman got into hot water with its labor friends by printing in Dlisseldorf, but was back in England a week later with union approval to hire a printer in Essex. The Economist, which was printed in a Swiss nunnery during a lesser strike in 1956, found a printer in Brussels, moved to Paris a week later, after Belgian unions expressed sympathy for the British strikers and threatened a boycott...
...inanimate, he is the spiritual descendant of the classical giant Antaeus, who was never so strong as when his feet stood on terra firma." Mason W. Gross, newly elected president, Rutgers University LL.D. Clark Kerr, newly elected president,' University of California LL.D. Jean Monnet, French economist and statesman LL.D. Citation: "Fearless crusader against economic chaos, he has spent 40 fruitful years in the quest for order and equability among the free nations of Europe...
...hope the gentleman will not try to make a statesman out of me," rumbled Tennessee's Democratic Congressman Ross Bass on the House floor last week. "Let's talk politics." Rarely has Ross Bass or any other Congressman come closer to expressing the will of the House. Under debate was a wheat-subsidy bill-and the outcome was 100% political, unalloyed by the slightest pretense of statesmanship...
...incident." Angrily, Labor M.P. Barbara Castle jumped to her feet to demand, "Has there been any identity parade of warders? If not, why not?" The British press, with honorable exceptions, has shown little fire about the affair, moving Paul Johnson to write heatedly in the left-wing New Statesman comparing Hola to concentration camps and British people's apathy to that of Germans under Hitler-only worse, for Germany had the excuse of press censorship to claim ignorance of what was going on. The London Times declared that "it is lawful to use such force as is necessary...