Word: hardheadedness
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Thus reasoned a lanky, hardheaded Californian whose Irish blood fears no fight but whose humanist mind hates folly. Lawyer John Francis ("Jack") Neylan, onetime political and financial reporter, was until 1937 lord high chancellor of the Hearst empire. Before that (1911-17) he was chairman of the State finance body...
When Chicago held its fair, the whole city was steamed up-not only the concessionaires and tradesmen, direct beneficiaries, but citizens whose enthusiasm was born of civic pride. The anomaly of the New York fair is that most New Yorkers have been genuinely bored with it. For the cosmopolitan conglomeration...
Grover Whalen admits that the fair is being run as a hardheaded business venture and not a philanthropy, that wherever the fair could turn an honest penny, it has done so. Those who bought the most fair bonds got a break. The fair pipes in water free from the city...
Last week for the first time in three years Grover Whalen had time to luxuriate among such playthings: he lay ill at home suffering from a heavy cold and a bad case of overwork. Since he became fair president in 1936 he has averaged a 12-to-16-hr. working...
Educators usually go to conventions to listen to educators, but last week 2,000 members of the New York State Vocational Association gathered in Manhattan to listen to businessmen. Their program was entitled: "The Employer Speaks to Vocational Teachers." The convention proved to be unconventional. Most uncommon thing about it...