Word: statesmanly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...moving in, pushing back into history the last remnants of irreverent, aristocratic Whiggery, pushing forward the businessman. In faith, in morals, in background, in purse, the young Gladstone seemed every inch a new Victorian. How, then, did he become the most hated as well as the most adored English statesman of his century...
...Selfish Rich. It happened, says Author Philip Magnus, in what is undoubtedly the best biography of Gladstone ever written, because Gladstone was the first British statesman to act upon the belief that God especially loved the common man. Gladstone felt that the rich were inclined to be "selfish," and this feeling was confirmed by various proofs...
...masters are utterly wet weeds, but "Bumblie" [Nov. 29], as are all boys, is brave, super and noble-cheers, cheers, cheers. Britain's future is assured! Anxiously awaiting further word of this rising young statesman...
...Elder Statesman Herbert Hoover, 80, took off by air for West Germany, where he will be the guest of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, get an honorary degree from Tubingen's university...
Named to the board with Dunlop were Edward M. Sharpe, chief justice of the Michigan State Supreme Court, and Charles A. Sprague, publisher of the Salem (Oregon) Statesman...