Word: hardheadedness
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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...
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...
Most investment trusts buy securities that they expect to pay dividends and increase in price, and then wait for their hopes to come true. Manhattan's Phoenix Securities Corp., run by a group of hard-headed businessmen (its chairman, bald Wallace Groves, is under indictment in a mail fraud...
>As it comes to all U. S. Steel Corp. employes at three score and ten, retirement came last week to hard-boiled round-faced Thomas Moses, vice president in charge of raw materials. At eleven Welsh-blooded Tom Moses began his career in an Indiana mine, soon had a union...
Chiang was no mixture of revolutionary and saint like Dr. Sun Yatsen, who in 1911 had stirred the Chinese to overthrow the corrupt Manchu dynasty. He was just the son of a South China wine merchant, who had been trained in the Military Academy at Tokyo, and later became president...