Word: statesmanly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Abolish the Paupers. Elder Statesman Alcide de Gasperi talked the new line: "We must transform our party into an instrument fit for the times.'' Of Italy's 11.5 million families, he said, 1,375,000 could be called "paupers," 1,345,000 more are underprivileged, and only 1,274,000 have a "high standard of living." De Gasperi summed up: "Our notion of social justice is to raise the poorer classes to a higher standard of living, to narrow the difference between all classes, and, above all, to abolish the pauper class." It was the voting, however...
...Washington for his second tour, Cooper opposed the Bricker amendment, the tidelands bill and the Benson farm program. His main legislative achievement belongs to Cooper the practical politician rather than to Cooper the high-minded statesman. He got through an amendment fixing tobacco supports rigidly at 90% of parity, a triumph that endeared him to many of his tobacco-grower constituents...
...rest of him . . . remained between the tracks." Just then the VIP's train pulled in, so Reporter Hecht left "the bloody scene" and hurried off to his interview. "I had felt no shock at what had happened under my nose, and by the time I interviewed the statesman I had forgotten it." Author Hecht describes this iron insensibility as a "katatonic armor [that] has served me frequently in my living. Whether it served me well or not, I have sometimes wondered." The quarter-million words of his autobiography, most of which reads like a cry from the soul...
...year, twice to speak to undergraduate groups in the Union, and the third time on Commencement Day to receive an honorary degree. Innumerable Harvard alumni undoubtedly marvelled at a later date that their University could have bestowed an honorary Doctor of Laws degree upon FDR with the citation: "...A statesman in whom is no guile...
Today he is again a hero-but for opposite reasons. With the exception of Punch (see cut), no public voice has been raised against his policies. Even the far left New Statesman and Nation has hailed him as "the new darling of the Labor Left." Eden obviously relishes his role in Geneva, delights in recapturing the glamour of his League-of-Nations days. His friends picture him as the only real diplomat on the Western side. Is he not the only one who can lunch with the U.S.'s Bedell Smith or France's Bidault, yet take...