Word: statesmanship
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...management of U.S. industry was filled with the comforting thought that it had done its duty. By granting pay raises which labor unions felt they could accept, management had shown a degree of economic statesmanship. But had it shown enough...
...benefiting unionists were only a small minority of consumers. The No. i problem for the U.S. was still to keep up the purchasing power of the majority. This could be done only by lowered prices. Was it not time that management showed a high degree of economic statesmanship-and lowered prices on a broad scale? Were not profits so high-despite wage increases-that businessmen could afford to lower prices...
...situation called for statesmanship. Washington conscientiously refrained from proposing to Fairless what he should do. A highly nervous country could only hope that Fairless would consider the problem both as it applied to Big Steel and to the whole U.S.-before the twitching became...
...speech before 2,000 New York postal employees (prohibited by law from playing politics), Postmaster Hannegan made what amounted to an official announcement that Harry Truman will be a candidate next year. He piled up his eulogies like a convention keynoter: "Granite courage . . . level-headed wisdom . . . integrity and high statesmanship." Carefully omitting any reference to F.D.R. and the New Deal, he laid down the new Democratic line: "We are on our way towards peace and prosperity because of the leadership of Harry Truman. . . . The people of America have learned that Harry Truman wears well...
...reorganized House next January will go a whopping number of new members. Whatever they may lack in polish and statesmanship, and whatever they do to Harry Truman's plans, they will add much to the life, color, success or failure of the Both Congress. Some of them...