Word: tactfulness
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Thanks to Chancellor Hunter's tact, however, five candidates for the $7,500 job of president last month endured the spotlight of the press and examination by the State Board of Higher Education. Last week the board made its choice. 37-year-old Dr. Donald Milton Erb, youngest man ever to head the University...
...asides, This Is My Story traces Mrs. Roosevelt's successful struggle to achieve self-sufficiency, a social conscience, against the heavy inhibitions of a strait-laced socialite environment, awkwardness, homeliness, family cares, fears ranging from burglars to not being able to have babies. Not entirely because of conscious tact, but also, the reader gathers, because her victory was won independently of her strongwilled, busy husband does Mrs. Roosevelt's story portray F. D. R. as the dimmest character...
...Indies are within easy striking distance of the Japanese Navy, the risk of heading such a committee was deemed too great for Queen Wilhelmina's representative, who promptly resigned. Thus, smart Vilhelms Munters of Latvia came to be chosen, has presided in recent weeks with notable skill and tact over a League committee whose British and French members wanted Japan to be let as nearly alone as possible, while its Soviet and Chinese members tried to egg the League into cracking down as hard as possible on Tokyo...
...Tokyo press corps last week, that usually suave diplomat, Foreign Minister Koki Hirota, took the gloves off and bluntly explained that the real purpose of Japan's expeditionary force is not to conquer China, but to kick out Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. In words chosen with far less tact than his sovereign was about to use to explain the Sino-Japanese War, Mr. Hirota observed: "We are fighting anti-Japanese movements in China. These exist largely in the Chinese Army, and General Chiang Kai-shek is their spearhead. The leaders of present-day China have long fostered anti-Japanism...
Preparing for a six-day convention of 2,000 delegates, factotums of Chicago's Hotel Sherman last week installed the usual facilities: a microphone and loudspeaker in the convention hall, a glittering screen behind the speakers' platform. All this unfortunately was not evidence of tact and foresight. The delegates were members of the National Association of the Deaf. The microphone was useless and the glittering screen had to be replaced by a black one before the audience could see what the speakers were saying...