Word: statesmanship
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...reassembled Congress, Franklin Roosevelt sent his twelfth annual message on the state of the nation. It was a speech to the world.* The message was longer than any of its eleven predecessors. It was also on a higher level of statesmanship than any Roosevelt utterance since the Presidential campaign began...
...Victorian corridors of the U.S. Steel headquarters at 71 Broadway. But Little Stet surprised oldtimers when he fought off a 1938 proposal that U.S. Steel cut wages to offset a drop in the price of steel. In a fireside chat, Franklin Roosevelt digressed to congratulate Big Steel on its "statesmanship." And Harry Hopkins, in his steady progress in U.S. society, had met and liked U.S. Steel's Ed Stettinius, had encouraged him to become a member of the Business Advisory Council, the New Deal's little group of "tame capitalists...
...Daring Statesmanship. Having thus made familiar two dangerous-looking areas, Dr. Kaplan tackled the third sector, War Plant and Equipment. As he analyzed the problem, about half of the $15.5 billion of war plants built by the Government are large facilities in such lines as shipbuilding, aircraft, aluminum and magnesium. If ingenuity fails to convert such facilities to peacetime use, he recommends courage in boldly dismantling those which cannot economically serve the people. Probably not more than $5 billion can be readily transformed into peace factories. Since $5 billion represents only about two years of normal investment in plant expansion...
...much mistaken. The whole thing boils down to this: we don't want a postwar world full of misery and unemployment, culminating 20 or 25 years from now in a third World War. And my friends and I definitely do not believe that the kind of negative statesmanship displayed by Spangler and C. Budington Kelland and almost the whole Republican Party is a guarantee of their ability to try and provide the kind of good world we feel entitled to after what we have gone through in two campaigns so far, and this thing isn't over...
...opening of a session. He gives a backslap here, a glad hand there, pausing to drop a witticism at this Senator's desk, an encouraging word of counsel at another's, to confer now gravely, now casually -dynamic, carefree, yet occasionally sober under the solemn responsibilities of statesmanship. Here, it seems from the gallery, is the very picture of a wise and charming legislator, beloved of his colleagues, happily resuming his daily burden...