Word: hardheadedness
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Middle Schoolman. Between the old school of Hill and Harriman and the new school of the Van Sweringens, railroading had its middle school of able, hardheaded, now somewhat old-fashioned gentlemen. Last week when William Benson Storey, 75, resigned his job as president of Atchison. Topeka & Santa Fe. one of...
He put the B. & O. on its feet in three years and immediately was offered $75,000 a year to be president of the Rock Island. As president of the B. & O. he was getting $25,000. Hardheaded, he wanted the money. Personally ambitious and aggressive, he wanted to do...
As Audubon's friends made him the rival of Alexander Wilson, so Brasher's have pitted his work against that of the late Louis Agassiz Fuertes. Married, facing the compulsion of supporting his fam ily. Fuertes wanted to paint all North American birds but had to limit himself chiefly to...
... I tail to sec the object of getting particularly excited at this time about foreign political debts. Because the dollar is tremendously dear in terms of commodities is no reason, except to hardheaded foreign financiers and governments, and U. S. owners of foreign second mortgages which they hope to make...
A notable change has come over "Oggie" Mills since he entered the Treasury four years ago as the dictatorial, rather supercilious scion of a wealthy old family. Born 46 years ago at Newport, R. I. at the height of the social season, he inherited a background and outlook by no...