Word: statesmanship
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...accidental victim of the deep G.O.P. dilemma. Chairman Spangler is a shrewd, behind-the-scenes vote-gatherer on the relatively low political plane of precinct, county and state. By default, he has been forced to scramble on stage, an unrehearsed understudy, in a role that might try the statesmanship of a Jefferson...
...serving the ends of democracy, it must be prepared for those tasks by education and training. And I wondered whether the evil of that kind of politicians whose attitude toward good government so frequently in negative, might not be reduced by more attention to the training of men for statesmanship. I suggested the commonplace which anyone who knows any thing at all ought to know, that in this particular, England has gone farther than we. But I said nothing about "selection," and the whole burden of my suggestion was that such training should be given in colleges--which is quite...
...Guadalcanal campaign, I celebrate these symptoms of vision and realistic idealism among veterans of World War II. This time we may rise above nationalistic and racialistic hysteria and above the familiar and disgraceful Legion lobbyism. We may demand, by virtue of our veteran power, instead, the kind of statesmanship that will indefinitely postpone World War No. III. It is high time...
...great quantities of goods which the industrial machine will be able to produce. The chief danger will come in the period of transition, as wages and prices fluctuate, seeking their postwar levels. It is in this area that the U.S. will need the best and surest of economic statesmanship...
...struggle was long and costly. After it ended, Molotov was rewarded with the Premiership, which he held for eleven turbulent years (1930-41). During these years, he graduated from machine politics to statesmanship. He fathered the collectivization of Russia's farms, helped to put through the first two Five-Year Plans, worked on the new Constitution...