Word: hardheadedness
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Mize is so sure that his methods are practical that he has just bought another poorhouse and hopes to open a second unit of St. Francis. He is now out raising money to pay for it and to meet St. Francis' $22,000 budget for next year. New contributors...
Spark for an Engine. The Harriman Committee concerned itself less with administrative details than with the ability of the U.S. to meet Europe's needs. The very bulk of its 3-lb. 14-oz. report inspired confidence. Its air of hardheaded realism, resulting largely from the shirtsleeve editing of...
A definite public attitude in the U.S. toward Western Europe was finally taking shape. The attitude in most respects reflected U.S. citizens at their best-a neighborly people, willing to help and prompted by humanitarian impulses, but nevertheless hardheaded and cautious.
Green's thinking reflected that of the federation. The A.F.L. had survived and grown in an unsympathetic world by a hardheaded conservatism. Under Samuel Gompers it shunned politics. It had only one real objective-wages, and more wages. It preferred to take what it could get without many risks...
The deal to develop Liberia by stimulating trade was a mixture of free-trading idealism and hardheaded business. With an eye on all the backward countries of the world, Stettinius said: "With our technique and know-how, it just isn't necessary for them to live poorly. I would...