Word: tactfulness
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Though he rode into that office as a Radical-Socialist when the electorate returned the present "Left Parliament"* in 1924, M. Doumergue is neither "radical" nor "socialist" but a "liberal" endowed with common sense. He has exercised with great tact and ability the thankless role of a President compelled to appoint 9 Ministries of widely varying political complexions within 25 months...
General Lassiter, as everyone knows, is considered one of the mildest-mannered and most ably diplomatic of U. S. officers. He was despatched from Panama to Tacna-Arica (TIME, Feb. 1) reputedly because his reputation for tact in dealing with Germans when his troops took over the Coblenz bridge head (1919) suggested that he might be able to cool Latin hotheads...
...remains merely to convince the two Protestants that their demands are unreasonable. This delicate task requires considerable finesse if it is possible at all. Well-balanced tact is necessary to avoid offending a dictator or a sensitive South American government. Even if diplomatic sedatives fail, the League will suffer no irreparable injury by the resignation of two states which prefer their own advancement to international security...
...Krim performed the official gesture of laying down his arms. A minimum of ceremony was observed by the French, since Spain has long exerted pressure to have the upstart "Sultan" treated as a mere tribal chief upon his surrender. General Boichut resolved this situation with great tact, announced that he had sprained his ankle, sent a group of subordinate officers to receive the sword of Krim...
...another session, Porter R. Lee, director of the New York School of Social Works, announced that the perfect social worker had not yet been born. When he or she did arrive, the characteristics would be these: tact, cooperation, reliability, fair-mindedness, agreeability, poise, magnetism and a large sense of humor...