Word: fetishizing
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...Africa" because he owns more of it than any other man. Still a U. S. citizen, he dislikes publicity, hides in a tiny office in one of his buildings where he appears every morning at 7:30. His formula for success: "Work, work, work, and more work is my fetish...
...Fetish. Deaf to the hoots of his advertising representatives. Publisher Cowles resolved to give out no circulation figures whatever until the Register had 25,000. Then & there he adopted a publishing formula which was to make him rich: He made Circulation a fetish. Hiring & firing one circulation manager after another, he finally took over the job himself. He found subscription accounts two, three, four years past due, weeded them out, put the paper on a cash-in-advance basis. On the theory that men & women are creatures of habit, he concentrated on the problem of getting the Register to them...
...photograph. His company has never joined either a trade association or a cartel or the NRA or a chamber of commerce. He had no bankers because he never needed them. The chemical industry is necessarily mysterious business but, with Allied's brilliant dictator, mystery was almost a fetish...
...ever larger numbers of students work their way through college, it has become a mater of course to assist them with scholarships, loans, an employment, a policy which the public approves with democratic enthusiasm. So keen is this fetish for higher education for all at any cost, that even the government offers indigent scholars approximately a million and a half dollars monthly...
...Grew Embassy what it is to many another. The Ambassador drives his staff, makes a fetish of seeing that they work the Service's statutory seven-hour day. Instead of "stealing" the bulk of his reports from his staff, an old trick of lazy diplomats, Ambassador Grew works up most of his own stuff, pecks it out with two fingers on a rickety typewriter. Specialists, of course, he must have. Small, crisp, sharp-nosed First Secretary Erie R. Dickover is the specialist on oil, the Embassy aide of the hour. For nine years stocky, dimple-cheeked Councilor of Embassy Edwin...