Word: hardheadedness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Problem. Hardheaded diplomats deplored the rocketing headlines over the case of City of Flint. U. S. diplomatic history is crammed with such cases; the U. S. has an impressive record of skill in litigation over them. The likelihood that the future will see more important issues made it desirable that...
Reporters scurrying to check up found that current U. S. diplomacy looked good in Finland and Russia. Thin, hardheaded, 47-year-old Ambassador Steinhardt in Moscow got a reputation for keenness as a lawyer, a trade expert, a ballyhoo-proof prophet of the 1929 crash, long before he won a...
Early this year Major James R. Randolph, U. S. Army Ordnance Reserve, predicted in Army Ordnance that rockets would eventually assume a major role as carriers of high explosives. Hardheaded Major Randolph declared that "in the present state of the art, there probably would be no great difficulty in equaling...
No exception to the Simon & Schuster rule, Wallace Brockway and Herbert Weinstock's Men of Music, was deliberately modeled on a previous success,Thomas Craven's Men of Art. To write it, the publishers hired no established bigwig of professional music criticism, but a couple of relative unknowns...
Hardheaded, commonsensical, down-to-earth, tough guy-to-tough guys as the Führer is mystical, Field Marshal Goring made a good job of it. For home consumption he piled up the cheering news: Victory in Poland within two weeks ("our divisions marched as humans never marched before") would...