Word: statesmanly
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...street-corner booths, stocked them with pretty girls, ran off five one-minute movies showing Benton the homebody (his wife showing off his scrapbook), Benton the internationalist (his trip inspecting ECA's Italian projects, aimed at the state's 239,000 Italians), Benton the statesman (flashes of Marshall, Eisenhower and Baruch endorsing his "Marshall Plan of Ideas...
Regular Democrats applauded the Murphy cleanup but did their best to depict Impellitteri as just an amateur statesman. Republican candidates applauded too, but happily seized on the whole scandal as wonderful campaign proof of Democratic graft and incompetence. According to grapevine report, other Republicans were plotting feverishly to get Ambassador O'Dwyer hauled home to answer a long list of embarrassing questions...
...needs two or three buildup scenes for every one that proves at all entertaining. In spots, Verneuil fans Affairs with fairly lively comments about life and breezy cackle about Washington; as the bride, Celeste Holm is deft and bright when not forced to be coy; as the scheming old statesman, Reginald Owen is urbanity itself. But neither play nor production comes to much as a whole...
House, courted no publicity. He was almost unknown outside Washington and western New York. But when he announced his retirement from politics last week, many of his colleagues in Congress bade him farewell with a one word eulogy: statesman. President Truman, ex-President Herbert Hoover, General Eisenhower, and many another national figure sent letters and telegrams of congratulation. General George Marshall flew to Rochester to pay tribute to him at a testimonial dinner...
White-haired Andrei Vishinsky, who had been gossiping amiably with Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch, froze in his seat. Then, in a move familiar in U.N. circles, but still a shock at social gatherings, he got up and, followed obediently by the Soviets' Jacob Malik, strode with all available hauteur from the room...