Word: foresights
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With contemporary life in its present state of flux, provincial thought and bad government are up for trial. It is not impossible that a forthcoming readjustment will bring a greater competence and honesty to government and a new foresight to business...
...Lawrence and Welland canals, delivered 1,550 tons of fencing wire and farm implements without the customary transshipment at Montreal. President George Bain Everitt of Montgomery Ward handed Capt. Alf Jonasson a gold watch; Vice President Webb made a speech about oldtime Merchant Montgomery Ward's foresight in planting his plant beside the water...
...Right now we can be particularly proud of our Republican party. By the courage, foresight and humanity of President Hoover and his successful proposal for an international debt holiday the world has turned the corner to a new order of things. The world looks to our Republican President as a savior...
...provocation than that he told the truth. In the admission of Bethmann Hollweg that the German invasion of Belgium was a "breach of international law" Bulow finds a stunning tactical error. This may be true, but the Prince goes on to say that Bethmann should have had the political foresight to deny categorically the remark after it had been made. This also, from the point of view of the professional diplomat may be true, but to base a defamation of character upon this premise is inexcusable. The harm done Germany is infinitely greater by Bulow's memoirs than by Bethmann...
...Baker presented a strange mixture of qualities. Possessed of a personality and will so compelling that few ventured to stand in his path, he was also fortunate enough to have a degree of foresight, judgment, and daring rarely rivalled in the financial history of this country. In his business relations he exhibited a hardness which was difficult to reconcile with the kindly consideration which he always displayed toward his personal friends. Over them he exercised an almost magical spell, and there were few who knew him well who did not love him. His manner in private life was smoothly, charming...