Word: tactfulness
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...mayoralty campaign, the City of Brotherly Love put on as unfilial a show of plain-&-fancy mudslinging as U.S. politics had seen in many a day. Against Bill Bullitt stood an odd combination: the G.O.P. machine and Communists who still smarted from ex-Ambassador Bullitt's lack of tact toward the Soviet Union in 1933-36. For Barney Samuel stood many a plain Philadelphian who was just simply leary of Bill Bullitt's attitude of elegant distaste. But there was a series of below-the-belt assaults on both candidates' patriotism, ancestry and personal morals. From unidentified...
Denmark, until recently Germany's model conquest, was looted with great finesse and tact, although the end results have been the same: all trade and industry of consequence controlled by Germans. The Danes felt a new lash of the Nazi whip last week, when troops began seizing furniture and household goods to be shipped back for the use of bombed-out German families...
Once the rigid rules were broken, Speakers were forced to wield power by tact, persuasion and favors. "Nick" Longworth kept a firm grip on the House through shrewd committee maneuvers; Texas' Jack Garner held sway by means of his long seniority and experience...
...Brien, star balladist and endman in the days of the late Lew Dockstader and George Primrose. Affably, Oldtimer O'Brien sat through the show, went backstage afterward and made a speech to the assembled company. "Any show that had the Rockettes in it," remarked he, with dry tact, "would be a success...
...this stout staff that helped him on his road to Rome and the ultimate goal, Berlin. For the harmony that prevails throughout, Ike Eisenhower has his own tact and diplomacy to thank. On October 14, General Eisenhower will be 53. Since last February, when he was temporarily commissioned a full general, he has been the youngest of that rank in the U.S. Army. This does not surprise the officers with and under whom Eisenhower has served. Since graduating from West Point in 1915, he has always shown a marked capacity for getting ahead, always worked and studied more than...