Word: esteemed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back Track. Indications are that PM will go after amusement advertising mainly, perhaps because three years of blasting away at Standard Oil, General Motors, Henry Ford, et al.-and at industry and finance in general-have not exactly built up mutual esteem. And labor unions, with whom PM cuddles, have not yet become heavy advertisers...
...greatest moment of the even came when Staff Sergt. Saul Seigle, on behalf of Company A, presented Major Merriam a small token of the esteem with which his men looked up to him. The token was simply tangible evidence of the happiness the company experienced when the major was recently promoted from a captaincy...
...R.A.F. subordinates usually esteem his quality of directness. "Oh, we love him," one of them said recently; "he's so bloody inhuman." In the first bomber unit which he commanded, between World Wars I & II, he was reputed to be the rudest man in the R.A.F. He was also an effective commander: he developed the "pacification by bombing" which kept unruly Indian border tribes more or less under control. When soft-hearted folk protested, Harris' friends explained that he always gave a village a full day's warning before his bombers destroyed...
Another attitude concerns bankers. Circumstance, politics and the bankers themselves put the calling for a while on the bottom rung of the ladder of public esteem. If they are no longer on the very lowest rung, it is not because the politicians have offered them a helping hand. On the contrary, politicians have taken over many private banking functions, with results in some cases that still await a critical examination. Some bankers have presumably become wiser for their bitter experiences, but they lack the opportunity to prove their wisdom and to attract new, able personnel. The public can well afford...
During its harried 18-month career the Army Air Forces glider program has found the winds of public and official esteem as tricky as the thermal air currents over a mountain peak. Like many another new weapon, the glider was first overlooked, then overdramatized, later overdisparaged...