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...tell your readers what has actually been the career of Dr. Faunce at Brown. He came to the university at the close of a bitter controversy over his predecessor which rendered a large portion of the alumni hostile to the new president. Because of his tact, honesty, and faith in the university, the breach was quickly healed. A natural reserve made it difficult for Dr. Faunce at first to enter into the life of the undergraduates, but this defect soon dwindled away because of his genuine desire to share the troubles and aspirations of young men. He has been...
Naturally such an offer was not sneezed at by the heads of a State both young and poor. With wily tact the Motor Man then and there employed several hundred Chinese at his Detroit works. By the time they are fully trained a new Ford assembling plant will be ready to receive them at Shanghai...
Jerome Davis Greene, Manhattan Republican, partner in Lee, Higginson & Co., long associated with the Rockefeller Foundation. Reason: doubt that Nominee Hoover has sufficient "diplomacy and tact" to lead Congress and public opinion...
...Council of the League of Nations kept a gavel rattling sharply, last week, as order was repeatedly commanded by Chairman Senor Aristines Aguero y Betancourt of Cuba. He, popular in Berlin, as the suave, easy-going Cuban Minister, conducted the soth League Council session at Geneva, Switzerland, with vigor, tact, address. Small Cuba sat metaphorically enthroned over the Powers due to a system of alphabetical rotation which lifts up each nation in turn to the League's High Chai...
...poker player who usually wins and a pinkish liberal who earnestly omits tact is Columnist Heywood Broun. One day last week, the following announcement appeared in the New York World at the top of the space usually devoted to his column...