Word: statesmanly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bolshevism" as this one. Mayor Thompson, like all demagogues, is a "protector of the peepul," and posing as such, has attacked nearly all forms of organized business in the city, especially the public utilities, and the "robber traction barons." His platform smacks rather of Lenine than of an American statesman. At a time when the utmost should be done to conciliate capital and labor, he is making Immoderate and uncalled for attacks on established business organizations, and is fostering the discontent of the "downtrodden" workman, perverting it to his own advantage. While emptying the city treasury to pay his henchmen...
...England stock, a shrewd, calculating country lawyer, "Honest Cal" has become in the person of "the silent man on Beacon Hill" a national figure. His telegram to Samuel Gompers, his second inaugural speech, have stamped him as more than an able politician. He has proved himself a vigorous statesman...
...soldier and a statesman General Wood has long been a prominent figure. His leadership of the Plattsburg movement before the United States entered the war won him signal notice. But aside from his past record, the fact that he is one of the leading candidates for the presidential nomination makes his visit today of the greatest interest to Harvard...
...library of Charles Sumner, of the class of 1830, who at his death in 1874 bequeathed his whole collection, one of the most valuable of the time, to the University. Among the most interesting of the books on view are a number of books of association with the great statesman, works formerly owned by personages famous in history, illuminated manuscripts of the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries, and a collection of autograph books. Included in the books owned by great men of the past, all with the autograph of the owner, are John Bunyan's Bible, Racine's New Testament...
...Hoover," writes Professor Scott, "is not a politician; but he is a statesman, a statesman, I believe, of the first rank. Among the potential presidential candidates I cannot see that there is one who begins to approach him in qualifications for the executive office...