Word: statesmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This is a plea to all delegates to the convention...If you Republicans are statesmen and not mere politicians, you must realize that Eisenhower is ideally fitted to lead the country. He is a gifted organizer and a superb mediator. With the proper politically experienced helpers behind him (not just bitter opponents to the Demo-donkeys), he could do more for the country-and the Republican Party-than a dozen didactic Tafts...
...Thirty-nine percent of the cabinet members said they read TIME, compared to 29% for the next magazine. And, by a three-to-one margin, they voted TIME the "most important to statesmen and opinion leaders." Second on the "most important" list: the London Economist...
...edited 28 editions, was working on the 29th the night before he died. Last week, as Britain celebrated the 100th anniversary of the first publication date, the Thesaurus had passed the 80-edition mark-a standard piece of equipment for three generations of professors and poets, statesmen and scholars, and crossword puzzle fans...
Pupils of his system have ranged from Billy Rose (200 words a minute) to Cuba's General Batista (175-200 words). There were businessmen and bankers, soldiers and statesmen, and legions of just plain Kitty Foyles. Of all the Americans who were to learn shorthand, 90% learned it from Gregg.* By the time he died in 1948, his loops and squiggles had recorded most of the business of the century...
There is one little magazine (circa 5,600) whose voice is heard around the world. Its name: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Its subscribers in 55 countries (including 40 in Russia) read like an international Who's Who of statesmen, news commentators and scientists; many readers consider it a better source of information on the U.S. atomic-energy program than AEC's own reports to Congress...