Word: downrightness
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...bold, downright boss of the third biggest U. S. steel corporation is doing something more than talk about steel's prospects. Now in the midst of a merger with Corrigan, McKinney and Truscon, he is supposed to have plans for further mergers under the hat that almost never leaves his baldish head, except when he sleeps and banquets. Topping all this activity is a recapitalization scheme which is intended to put Republic's finances on a solid steel foundation...
...Church overrides such objections and makes an archbishop of James De Wolf Perry it will be because he is in many ways the man for the job. Rich, tactful and diplomatic, he is a true scholar whose great specialty has been Church Unity and who has been neither too downright Catholic for the Protestants nor too thoroughgoingly Protestant for the Catholics. He has a background such as might at once lend to a U. S. Archbishopric the character acquired by the Anglican ones through the centuries. He has a home in Providence full of antiques and paintings, a large library...
...killed by greed and muddle and monstrous cross-purposes, by old men gobbling and roaring in clubs, by diplomats working underground like monocled moles, by journalists wanting a good story, by hysterical women waving flags, by grumbling debenture-holders, by strong, silent, beribboned asses, by fear or apathy or downright lack of imagination...
...Aspinwall's death in 1875. Aged 25, he was taken into partnership in the mercantile firm of Gardiner G. & Samuel S. Howland. his uncles. The firm later fell largely into his hands, developed a thriving trade in the Mediterranean, an unrivalled one in the Pacific and East Indies, a downright monopoly in Venezuela. His venture into the promotion of the 49-mi. Panama R.R., whose eastern terminus was called Aspinwall,* and the Pacific Mail Steamship Co. which linked it to both sides of the continent, was regarded by his associates as a bold speculation for so sober-sided a financier...
...manufacturing industries are processing sugar and canning pineapples, there is no doubt about who rules the territory, regardless of who happens to be holding forth in Iolani Palace. Most of these economic rulers, traditionally Republican, view the New Deal of their distinguished Democratic visitor with considerable apprehension, if not downright alarm...