Word: getterism
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Therefore last week the men in Geneva, the statesmen of 57 nations, had to build almost anew, or fail and leave their Conference a mockery. Up stood a go-getter, before the Conference was quite ready to hear him, and dynamically proposed to build anew. Said he in effect: the Conference had better scrap that confused wad of paper over which European statesmen have fought and contradicted each other for years, the so-called League of Nations Draft Convention for the Disarmament Conference. Instead, the go-getter, M. Andre Tardieu, proposed his plan, the plan of France...
Highest Paid Man, No bonus-getter is Chairman Schwab and at the meeting he admitted that a frequent question is: "What does C. M. get out of it?" His answer was: "I have been the highest paid man in the United States for a good many years. Some years my compensation was in figures that would stagger you. Now I want you to remember that I risked my money on this enterprise upon every occasion as late as 1918. Since 1908 I have received an average from this corporation of $86,000 a year. ... In 1930 the board of directors...
Matches. Far flung are the operations of Kreuger & Toll Co., holding company for the great "Swedish Match Trust," for 21 industrial banking and real estate operations, for the Grangesberg Co. iron mines (Europe's biggest), for the control of L. M. Ericsson Telephone Co. Master of its many operations, getter of its match monopolies is close-shaven,quick-speaking Ivar Kreuger, self-made, much publicized "world's richest bachelor." To shareholders last week he reported that Kreuger & Toll during 1930 earned $24,163,000 from dividends and interest received, against $14,278,000 from those sources in 1929. Trading profits...
Fifty next Washington's Birthday, Governor Ely, able lawyer of Westfield. bears a strange resemblance to the State's last Democratic Governor ? that great vote-getter, big-faced, handsome David Ignatius Walsh, now U. S. Senator. Of middling height and weight, Governor Ely violates all rules of Massachusetts Democracy by smoking cigarets instead of rancid cigars. A quick, flashy smile has rendered him immensely popular. As Governor, he transferred from his own Chrysler to the Chrysler sedan furnished by the State but kept his private chauffeur. At the State House he received, among many another, a great floral tribute...
...article in your Dec. 15 issue with reference to Dr. Flexner and his criticism of American colleges, universities and education and lack of culture, will say that such pedantry makes me mad clear through. Why in the name of progress don't they get a red-blooded go-getter to investigate the colleges and their systems and what they produce and not some European-leaning snob who should have no place in a land where success and not birth is the measure...