Word: statesmens
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...tonic to be shared to discover again some words of Goethe-one of Germany's greatest poets and thinkers and in a smaller measure one of her statesmen-in which this enlightened man deflates the state, upholds the dignity...
...future, however, is determined by the present. We cannot plan for the future interminably, without actually doing something now. Negroes must be given educational opportunities, better health conditions, equitable security in agriculture. These are the things that open the way to that future of which statesmen and politicians speak so glibly and so surely. There must be meaning to our words of idealism. Those words can only realize their meaning in practice...
Winston Churchill's achievement was that he, alone among the leading Allied statesmen, had given the Allied peoples something that they could grasp, examine, discuss in tangible terms. Out of this discussion, by week's end, had come a good deal of light on the world that people want-and on the world that they are likely to have...
Ever since C.I.O. split off from A.F. of L. in 1935, labor statesmen have wondered how to put labor's Humpty Dumpty together again. The latest attempt: a joint committee to iron out jurisdictional disputes. Last week came a candid editorial by Daniel J. Tobin, head of the A.F. of L. teamsters' union and member of the committee. Teamster Tobin, his patience petering, told how the patching job was going...
Other minds and imaginations than those of statesmen focused last week on the role the U.S. must play in a future world. Two years ago the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America set up a commission to study the bases for a "just and durable" peace.† Last week came the commission's findings-a six-point program which it hopes will be adopted by the Congress and Administration as the official policy...