Word: getterism
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...processes, and without a doctor. And being bookish professors I rather think that would be the proper treatment. However, we Americans believe in reaching out and dragging forth whatever might be dawdling behind Hoover's corner. The people of this country seem pretty well pleased to have a 'Go-getter' in the White House. Best regards, W. M. Dyer...
...final rubber-stamp of the week, the Convention nominated for President by acclamation a pure-blooded Tarascan Indian,* General Lazaro Cardenas, the fierce, secretive go-getter who hunted Bandit Pancho Villa. General Cardenas' taciturnity is a Mexican byword. Since last spring, when Dictator Calles indicated that he would pick Cardenas (TIME, April 3), the general has been studiously "doing nothing," having resigned as Minister of War to comply with the Mexican law that no official can be a presidential candidate. Last week Candidate Cardenas not only did nothing but, anxious above all to retain his reputation as a loyal...
...past are now split, how closely no one knows. The Innes-Nichols-Goulston group is an excellent match for the Curley-Coakley-Foley combine. Parkman has the record of being a political giant-killer and his experience as a dock foreman combined with political astuteness make him a vote-getter among the working classes. Mansfield points justifiably with pride to his 90-odd thousand votes against Curley last election. Last minute dopesters say Foley's loss of the city employee vote to Nichols has killed his chances. Samuel Seabury's nephew is Parkman's manager and the Judge's support...
...announcement, last spring, that though she had withdrawn from the League of Nations, she had no idea of relinquishing her League-given mandate over the Marianne, Caroline, Palau, Yap and Marshall Islands in the Pacific (TIME, April 3). The Yellow Peril has for 30 years been a great circulation-getter for the Hearstpapers, which the Hearst-whooped Spanish War put on the map. Here came the Yellow Peril to squat permanently between the U. S.-possessed Philippine and Hawaiian Islands! And every one knows that a War Party has been dominant in Japan for two years! Publisher Hearst last week...
...Reporter Ray Tucker, wild & wooly go-getter after official malfeasance or social injustice, was never in better form. 'The days of Teapot Dome never compared with these," he reported. And "the question [of the man on the street] heard everywhere around the Capitol is, 'What chance have we got?' " Pitched to a sustained keynote of Wall Street wickedness. Tucker's stories were masterfully written and made exciting reading. Also in the World Telegram, Pinko Heywood Broun surpassed himself with cynical skits about the House of Morgan and its Friends in high places. Apropos the 1929 letter...