Word: esteemed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Businessmen apparently hold the Advanced Management Program in high esteem because each year, according to the trade journal "Personnel," "vice-presidents, managers, and other executives" scramble for opportunities to attend one of the 13 week courses. Since the program began after the war, more than 1,250 men from over 250 companies have enrolled...
...senior wire-service correspondent at the White House, United Pressman Merriman Smith, 37, has enjoyed the affection of President Truman, the esteem of his colleagues and a time-honored privilege: he closes the presidential press conferences with his "Thank you, Mr. President." But at last week's conference (which Smith skipped), the President had no thanks for Mr. Smith. Harry Truman, notably in a touchy mood (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), tartly remarked that one news service at least had been something less than objective in its coverage of the Truman-MacArthur meeting on Wake Island. What galled the President...
Last week, after the Herald Tribune had added its protests to those of Correspondent Higgins, General Douglas Mac-Arthur reversed Walker's ruling. To the Herald Tribune, MacArthur sent a soothing telegram: "Ban on women correspondents in Korea has been lifted. Marguerite Higgins is held in highest professional esteem by everyone...
...supreme self-confidence-his competitors call it arrogance-is solidly based on the fact that he is the most potent single modernizing influence in a largely antiquated industry. Last week he added another cubit to his self-esteem and his builder's stature; in seven days, his salesmen sold another 350 houses in his Levittown "store" (where lumber, piping and other materials used in each house are on display). Said Bill Levitt: "I told them I'd give them an extra week off this summer if they did it. I don't say these things unless...
...have learned of the death of Bob Doyle. His loss has saddened all the Indonesian people and left those of us who knew him with a deep sense of personal loss. He was a fine man and a keen observer of events. We held him in the highest esteem and affection...