Word: statesmanship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ross Bass on the House floor last week. "Let's talk politics." Rarely has Ross Bass or any other Congressman come closer to expressing the will of the House. Under debate was a wheat-subsidy bill-and the outcome was 100% political, unalloyed by the slightest pretense of statesmanship...
...decisions reached by the employees and employers in this field. It is a basic industry, and whatever is done affects all the rest of industry, and I can only say this: that we must look to them for some good sense and some wisdom-I mean real business-labor statesmanship-or in the long run the U.S. cannot stand still and do nothing...
...release the veterans' fund until Williams agrees. Still adamant. Soapy Williams offered a compromise. The compromise, it turned out, was his original offer restated, and it was turned down. As the deadlock continued and funds got scarcer, the Detroit News crystallized a common sentiment about the poverty of statesmanship: "Party leadership has shown it cannot lead, except into disaster. It's time for men of better will to get to work...
...Orleans' handsome, hard-working Mayor DeLesseps Morrison (TIME, Jan. 30, 1956), who lost to Long under an avalanche of upcountry votes in 1956. So confident is Earl of winning ("I wanna give that little squirt Della Soups Morrison one more beating") that he is even trying statesmanship. To a crowd gathered for a bridge dedication at Natchitoches he solemnly suggested that the Governor's office be put under civil service. Knowing Earl, remembering Huey, the crowd just laughed...
...restore calm, Lleras canceled the increase. To keep the calm, he will have to pull another miracle of statesmanship -a miracle that will build new industries to put Colombia's hungry manpower, currently growing at the rate of 70,000 a year, to work...