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Like a business merger, a church merger requires the tactful employment of special techniques. Last week in Philadelphia, at its 150th annual General Assembly, the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A heartened hopers for church unity by its mastery of both tact and tactics. Ever since the Civil War this church has remained separated from the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. (South). Last week, winding up their General Assembly in Meridian. Miss., Southern Presbyterians approved the work of their committee which is negotiating a reunion with the Northern church. And in Philadelphia. for the first time in nearly...
Readers of a weekly like TIME expect facts. They prefer to have these presented with tact and dignity. They do not want cheap gossip and unsubstantiated information...
...behavior (apparently confusing Mooney with Muni). In the penultimate paragraph you dispense with implications and make the blatant statement that "Mooney ended ... as usual with a burst of tears, finally recovered enough presence of mind to pose," etc. Does this mean that a man who has not the tact, or art, to conceal his emotion on his respite from prison cannot seriously be considered a victim of injustice...
...while alive, rarely escape the honor of a collected edition, but few painters living or dead have been given an exhibition of their complete work. The reason is that a gifted painter's work is usually dispersed among many purchasers, costs a great deal of money, time and tact to reassemble. One of the most remarkable events of the London art season, therefore, was an exhibition which opened fortnight ago at the New Burlington Galleries-852 oil paintings, water colors and drawings, comprising the complete* life work of a young Englishman who died under a train at Salisbury...
...challenger and defender are sure they will knock out the other. Likewise, in beginning this year's dogfight, the government and big business, with labor sandwiched somewhere in between, have sounded the note of war. The Administration, which should, because of its position, be acquainted with the virtues of tact and temperance, has obviously blown its trumpet too hard and very flat. On the other side, both business and labor have shown by their utterances that they, too, are not entering into this eternal triangle with a clear, calm, and impartial mind. If the government is not always right, neither...