Word: fears
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...presided. In his opening speech he referred to the National Negro Finance Corporation, recently organized as a financial backer for Negro enterprises: "For 16 years the founder of this organization, Booker T. Washington, sought with tact and courage to overcome what seemed almost an obsession with our people- business fear and timidity. In large measure as individuals, and even more so in groups, we have overcome this timidity. The need for the present, therefore, is to stress the need for honest, capable, expert management as a basis for credit...
Business still hangs suspended between hope and fear. The background is too strikingly encouraging for merely a "quiet confidence"; on the other hand, the omens in the industrial world are still too obscure for certainty as to conditions during the coming season. Most business men are entirely ready to do something strenuous very quickly, only they are not yet certain just what it is they should...
...equitable distribution of the rewards of toil and industry; in the suppression of private monopoly as a thing indefensible and intolerable; in the largest liberty for every individual; in local self-government as against a centralized bureaucracy; in public office as a public trust; in a government administered without fear abroad or favoritism at home...
...Mandeville and Baron von Münchhausen told tales and people swallowed them. People were no more credulous then than-now, but less was known of the geography of the world and of what strange things might be discovered in unknown parts. It was unwise to doubt too much for fear of being damned later by the facts...
Devereux Milburn?officially named captain of the U. S. team, a seasoned campaigner of all the International matches since 1909, often called " world's greatest polo player." He plays at Back, a hard-hitting, hard-bodied tactician. The English fear him as they fear no other American...