Word: statesmanly
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...breath. The burden of crisis had shifted from the presidency to other hands. The tangled issues of OPA, the draft, labor legislation were squarely, if temporarily, up to Congress. Secretary of State Byrnes was off for Paris, trying to crack the Big Four deadlock on peace treaties. Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch was guiding U.S. plans for control of the atom (see INTERNATIONAL). Poised at dead center, the President had nothing to do but wait...
Congressmen have known it for a long time. Last week the U.S. public learned that the statesman-leader of the Republican Party in domestic affairs is Robert Alphonso Taft. In matters of foreign policy the Republicans take their cues from Senator Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg. But on such household matters as housing, the budget, education, labor, the man is Taft...
...retired from the U.C.L.A. faculty nearly two years ago. ("I was 70. The actual age of retirement is 65, but they made an exception. But even so ... I could have gone on; it was cruel.") He is finishing the last act of an opera about "Aaron as the statesman and Moses the philosopher," which he laid aside in 1932 because he got out of the mood. In the next five years he intends to complete five books, two of them on counterpoint. He usually has about eight pupils, each of whom pay about $200 a month...
...Formula for Purging. Koreans, remembering Japan's tutelage, were disappointed when the Moscow Conference decided upon another trusteeship, under the U.S. and Russia, for five years. Rightist groups in the American zone, loosely amalgamated in the Representative Democratic Council under elder statesman Syngman Rhee, protested heatedly, berated both the U.S. and Russia. But leftists, gathered under Communist domination in the Democratic People's Front, espoused trusteeship and opposed immediate independence, although Communists all over the world were yipping for the freedom of India and Indonesia...
...paced his office, gaped at by his aging courtiers. None of the small Johns and Toms had much to say; they did not even know exactly what was in the great man's mind. There was little warmth in the Lewis office, only reverence. "Some great statesman once said the heights are cold," John L. orated in 1940. "I think that is true. The poet said, 'Who ascends to the mountain's top finds the loftiest peaks encased in mist and snow...