Word: statesmanly
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...arrived in Washington. The lobby of The Carlton was jammed with obliging celebrities and avid autograph hunters, but the defeated candidate had no time for either. In the seventh-floor suite of Secretary of State Cordell Hull he settled down for a two-hour conference with the old border statesman. Wendell Willkie was going to London to see the war for himself. President Roosevelt had asked Cordell Hull to make available to him information and assistance of the Department of State...
...Fact is, Statesman Johnson did say it, almost word for word as Lawyer Davis said it four weeks before. But some of the phrases are Shakespeare's: the general idea is older far than the Bard...
Nature had done nothing dramatic for Mr. Chamberlain. He was tall and stringy, with the distinction of being the only British statesman who could sing Negro spirituals (learned as a young man when he was trying to raise sisal in the Bahamas), and the biggest feet in the Cabinet. He also had gout and bunions. Clement Attlee once said that Chamberlain's smile reminded him of the silver handles of a coffin. A kindlier woman said his eyes were "cold and smiling, like a Scandinavian river...
Intimates of the re-elected President, knowing that his eyes were on the far horizon of U. S. interests, this week prepared to see him take on a new role, to become a sort of super-President, a Hemisphere statesman. Tentative talk was heard that Henry Agard Wallace might become the first executive Vice President, an innovation in Government functions whereby all definitely domestic affairs would be turned over to Wallace, who would thus become custodian and watchdog of the New Deal at home...
...Munich will always remain the most courageous, idealistic achievement any British statesman has accomplished in the past hundred years. Others think differently...