Word: statesmanly
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...must learn to shrug off. He knew that, unless he held his peace, he would embarrass Friend Roosevelt. Yet last week, with the philosophic detachment of the deaf, and the practical detachment of a man to whom politics is more than a game, he sat down and wrote a statesman's letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee...
...Muhlenberg (family-greatest in the history of U.S. Lutheranism-will be re-enacted at Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pa. The occasion: the 200th anniversary of the arrival in the U.S. of Henry Melchior Muhlenberg (1711-1787), sire of Washington's general and ancestor of many another famed parson, statesman and educator. He was the real founder and patriarch of the Lutheran Church in the U.S., was called Gachs-wunga-roracks by his Indian friends because "his words went through the hearts of men like a saw through a knotty plank...
When he went away, Statesman Hull was troubled about the U.S. connection with Vichyfrance. The White House had silently concurred in the maintenance of relations with Vichy, but it was the State Department which had to take the lumps for truckling to minions of Hitler. Mr. Hull never dreamed that he could shore up Vichy against Hitler indefinitely. It was another Joshua policy. He may have kept the French fleet French for a year and a half. Certainly his policy set up a watchtower in the heart of Europe...
...voters knew they were getting no statesman. Senator Brooks was one of the bitterest of pre-Pearl Harbor isolationists, a loud, rabble-rousing opponent of Lend-Lease, of draft extension, of revision of the Neutrality Act. Brooks, a veteran of three defeats for other offices which his sponsor, the Chicago Tribune, had sought for him, had squeaked through to victory in 1940 while the electorate's eyes were focused on the more important Roosevelt-Willkie campaign. In 17½ months in the Senate his only achievement had been membership on the hapless isolationist committee which had tried to smear...
Four months ago Canada adopted the over-all ceiling plan-devised by Elder Statesman Bernard M. Baruch out of his World War I experience-after piecemeal stopgaps had failed. Now the U.S. was in the same fix. Price Boss Leon Henderson, who had tried to control prices by tackling them one at a time, was like a man with a rotted garden hose; as soon as he repaired one leak, a new one popped...