Word: getterism
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...hustling, breezy type of American go-getter will find his style rather cramped in Central and South America," adds the codifier of these fashions, the U. S. Chamber of Commerce at Washington...
...three most important campaigns: In Iowa where Claude R. Porter, able Jeffersonian, faces Radical Smith Wildman Brookhart, the effervescent cure which regular Iowa Republicans have at last swallowed. In Masisachusetts where David Ignatius Walsh, onetime Governor and Senator,* beloved of the Irish of Boston, the most potent Democratic vote-getter in New England, clashes with Senator Butler, prosperous-looking business man, chairman of the Republican National Committee, beloved of President Coolidge and Frank W. Stearns. In Illinois where a most picturesque campaign is being acted by George E. ("Boss") Brennan, Wet and Democratic, and Frank L. Smith, public utility darling...
...Hoover is the right man in the right place, a go-getter, a calliope and a limelight rolled...
...Park--"The Show-Off" at 8.15: A big league comedy uncovering the social go-getter...
...business training into the sluggish veins of impractical humanism destroys, rather than modifies the academic nature of the college. The professors of commercial science seem determined to scrape the ivy and mould from off the academic wall, and to replace aesthetics by the applied philosophy of the "go-getter...