Word: statesmanly
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Mossadegh, by Western standards an appalling caricature of a statesman, was a fair sample of what the West would have to work with in the Middle East. To sit back and deplore him was to run away from the issue. For a long time, relations with the Middle East would mean relations with men such as Mossadegh, some better, some much worse...
Fleet Streeter thought he had tried to tackle too much. The Mirror has bought paper mills in Canada, a string of newspapers in Africa and Australia and a chain of Australian radio stations. Mister Bart had also started a labor weekly, Public Opinion, to challenge the left-wing New Statesman and Nation and Bevanite London Tribune. Public Opinion folded, and the Mirror also lost on some of the other ventures: Mister Bart's close friendship with Labor Foreign Minister Herbert...
...suggest that B. M. Baruch, elder statesman, has come to be B.M.B., elder bootlegger? I have known Mister Bernie for quite a spell . . . he is still a veritable devil with the girls, and . . . completely without probity when he describes his ability at shooting quail, and I know for sure he cheats at Canasta . . . Mr. Baruch's favorite statement, which he started using on President Wilson and has not abandoned since, is: 'What are the facts?' I hang him with his own slogan. 'What are the facts, Mr. Baruch? How did the booze get in your...
...their employ. As Samson mounted his double-decker bus last week, to take it once again over a run he knew as well as the back of his hand, he was looking forward to another company dinner the next night, at which he would rank as an acknowledged elder statesman among bus drivers...
...vote is a toss-up between John Foster Dulles and his Japanese Peace Treaty, or Mr. Acheson for his handling of the [San Francisco] conference. If the Republican Party would stop looking for a politician and try a statesman for a change, either of these might do also...