Word: hardheadedness
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Impartial Senate observers rate him thus: a hardheaded, rough, ruggedly sincere and able legislator who wants to be a regular Republican, but whose strong convictions often carry him to the insurgent ranks; a wealthy man who often votes against the desires of the wealthy, hence is called "the scab millionaire...
Editor Older soon discovered that his newspaper was not on the pure list. It was receiving "pay" from railroads. It was receiving money from political parties for candidacy support. But this bothered Editor Older not at all. Graft was running the railroads, governing Labor, electing city officials. Fearless, ambitious, fight...
The O'Neill-Momgomery projects stir little trepidation in President Juan Terry Trippe of Pan-American Airways. He too is simpatico and hardheaded. He has at heart and hand a transportation system which he projected and built himself.
The superintendent, one Hickey, expressed gratitude by not forgetting. Three months later the new Colorado & Southern shop foreman at Trinidad, Colo., was a tireless, driving, hardheaded youngster named Walter Chrysler. Other railroads heard, needed, beckoned. After a bit the superintendent of motive power of the whole Chicago & Great Western system...
Few would deny that an adequate education can be acquired outside a classroom. But it is only the very exceptional student who has the initiative or the vision to be able to do so. Mere hard work and a desire to succeed do not uniformly bring results. Leaving the delights...