Word: statesmanship
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...carry out the settlement are actuated by the same broadgauged statesmanship which motivated Mr. Roosevelt, then there will be cause for rejoicing, indeed, for the President has regained much of the ground lost since the NRA began its one-sided handling of the labor problem several months ago. Today the Government of the United States has restored the balance as between employers and employees and the Government is again the umpire, the neutral force that causes both sides to respond and obey...
...Roosevelt. Even more serious is the news that the Cuban government plans to take over in the same summary fashion the United Railways Company which is British owned. Should this occur Mr. Roosevelt will indeed be faced by a problem which will tax all his powers of statesmanship. If he cannot get some sort of guarantee from the Cuban government that the occupation of these properties will not be permanent he will find himself forced to choose between two highly disagreeable courses, for if he intervenes in Cuba he will destroy all the good will which he and Mr. Hull...
...past." Thoughtfully must a young Paul weigh the Laymen's Inquiry's words: "The period upon which the missionary enterprise is entering will test the patience, the consecration and the qualities of leadership of the missionaries in the field. Only a high order of administrative statesmanship can guide the missionary movement at this time...
...Harrison. The important part he will play in the leadership of the new Democratic Senate has done much to sober Pat Harrison and tighten his loose-hitched tongue. At 51 he has become almost owlish under the prospective burdens of statesmanship. The great lung capacity he first developed as a barefoot boy hawking the Memphis Appeal & Avalanche about the dusty streets of his native Crystal Springs, Miss, seems to have deserted him. He still makes windy speeches outside Washington about "mah countree" and views Republican doings with "amaze-munt" but he is no longer the Senate's loudest...
...Where our ancestors dipped their pens in acid we now dip ours in syrup. In statesmanship ... it pays to advertise. The medium of caricature is a godsend to ambitious politicians for it exhibits personality in an arresting and compelling manner. . . . The cartoonist draws from physical characteristics their spiritual significance, or, reversing the process, suggestions of abstract qualities which could not otherwise be made plain. It is to be expected that in this translation . . . the translator and his subject should not always see eye to eye. When the subject says. 'I quite appreciate a good cartoon against myself...