Word: getterism
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...church, on the implications of the industrial revolution in Asia for Christianity, on population problems, "cultural empathy," and on Hinduism, Islam, Buddhism and Roman Catholicism. Again and again they returned in their discussions to the problem of changing the stock image of the American as a materialistic go-getter...
Ralph J. Rivers, 55, lone member of the House of Representatives. A onetime territorial attorney general, wiry Ralph Rivers has long been a top vote getter in Alaska, was once mayor of Fairbanks, two years ago made a 6,500-mile auto trip to Washington, where he, Gruening and Egan announced themselves as duly elected representatives of the abortive "Alaska Tennessee'' Plan, demanding recognition for Alaska as a state...
...nationalism is the Tribal Council, which tends to be run by two powerful figures (many of the rest cannot speak English): Chairman Paul Jones and Executive Secretary J. Maurice McCabe. Jones, a taciturn, white-thatched Indian, is a high school graduate. McCabe, a business-college graduate, is a go-getter who, like Jones, is widely respected by businessmen who deal with the tribe...
...will do Kennedy no good at all merely to win this election; he must win big. Should he fail to lead his ticket--as happened in the primary--his reputation as a vote-getter will suffer immeasurably and with it his hopes for the Presidential nomination...
...discredit to Oberlin's able President William E. Stevenson to say that while his predecessors were scholars, he -a onetime Wall Street lawyer - is primarily a money-getter. Even for a relatively wealthy ($50 million) school such as Oberlin, money-getting must color almost all public pronouncements. It is no accident that at last week's 125th anniversary convocation, three of four outside speakers - the Ford Foundation's Henry Heald, the Carnegie Foundation's John Gardner and Standard Oil of New Jersey's retired Board Chairman Frank Whittemore Abrams - were close to the strings...