Word: statesmanly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...presidency six times, Socialist Norman Mattoon Thomas, 65, was beginning to think it was no use. Furthermore, he thought his party ought to give up presidential campaigns too. Last week his proposal, made at the Socialists' biennial convention in Detroit, almost split the party in twain. Elder Statesman Thomas urged that the party spend its few dollars on other groups which had Socialist aims (e.g., labor unions, Americans for Democratic Action) and on local elections and membership campaigns...
Paul A. Freund, professor of Law, noted that the decisions "won't wholly satisfy either side" of the civil rights controversy. He said the Court has used restraint and had followed a "statesman-like course...
Abroad, Smuts is considered a great world statesman. At home, where Malan edged him from office by a narrow margin in 1948, Smuts is a politician who stands for internationalism and relative liberalism on the race question, while Malan's nationalism and increasingly stern apartheid (race segregation) bring tension nearer the snapping point in a nation one-fifth white and four-fifths black...
Died. W. W. Yen (Yen Hunching), 73, Chinese elder statesman and onetime Prime Minister (1924-26) of the Republic of China; in Shanghai. After the overthrow of the Manchu dynasty by Sun Yat-sen in 1911, frail, U.S.-educated Dr. Yen served as a diplomat to Germany, Sweden, Denmark, the U.S., the U.S.S.R. He came out of retirement last year to head an unofficial four-man mission to Peking which tried unsuccessfully to make peace with the Communists...
...Week from a friend of Pumpton's and cloped with him after getting drunk at the Senior Spread. Far from being puerile, the Class Week of 1947 produced the first enunciation of the European Recovery Plan by General George O. Marshall, who, to Plumpton's mind, was the first statesman of heroic stature to appear since Bismarck. And in a frantic attempt to flee Cambridge, Pumpton piled up his roommate's Buick on the Worcester Turnpike and spent the summer in Stillman Infirmary. The bill, including repairs to the Buick...