Word: statesmanly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...safeguarded against an undue percentage of nicotine; and nowhere can guardians of the general welfare be so properly found as in the colleges. Even the Yale "Pest" would agree that none are better suited. But should this philanthropy be restricted to the comparatively innocuous luxury,--tobacco. No,--as any statesman would say,--a thousand times, no! The self-denial, the courage, the patriotism which inspired these students may be diverted to even more conspicuously beneficial uses...
When Mr. Chamberlain was a member of the Senate Committee on Military Affairs he was a staunch advocate of preparedness and came out strongly against his fellow-Democrat Newton D. Baker. He is probably the most conspicuously able statesman whom Oregon has yet given to the nation, and there are those who feel that he has merit as a Democratic presidential possibility...
Premier Theunis is known to have disfavored the French policy of giving Britain the cold shoulder in the now possible reparations parley. It transpires that this far-seeing statesman was in communication with the Germans, and that he was responsible for sending M. Jaspar, Belgian Foreign Secretary, to Italy to hear the Stinnes proposals. When these were communicated to him he gave Loucheur full support for his mission to England. In this way he was able to bring considerable pressure to bear on Poincaré, who found himself in a quandary owing to the popularity of Loucheur's efforts...
...often tempted to regard as rooted in the laws of nature or else as senseless and indefensible, by showing us how they arose and became what they are, what human needs and interests they have served, what forces have favored or misguided their development. History may not furnish the statesman with exact solutions for each concrete problem. But it can give him a deeper insight into the nature of political forces; it can train his powers of observation and reflection about political matters; it can supply him with a mass of evidence of how given measures and policies have worked...
...wonder what an Englishman thinks about?", "I wonder what a Frenchman thinks about?" If it does, and they seek an answer, the impossible might happen--a few might return home with the avowed purpose of going into politics, and from that beginning attain the rarest of American titles, Statesman...