Word: hardings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...anybody remember when the times were not hard, and money not scarce? Ralph Waldo Emerson...
...Ronald Lindsay, they sent 57-year-old Philip Henry Kerr, Marquess of Lothian, owner of 28,000 English and Scottish acres, onetime journalist, Wartime secretary to David Lloyd George. He is an ambitious man who long ago "arrived" in British affairs by hard work. Accused (he denies it) of being a member of the famed, talkative Cliveden Set and of having helped oust Anthony Eden, he favored appeasement until he lost belief in Adolf Hitler's humanity. Then he favored a British military alliance with Russia. Now he may confidently be counted in Britain's war-if-necessary...
...them. Now the "encirclement" of the democracies was at an end. Now it was certain that England & France wouldn't fight. If there was to be a war, it would be a one-front war, and the Army would like that. And those Czechs, who might have been hard to hold down, they would like it, too. A shock, yes, but once more they could feel a real security. Their Führer had again played a masterful stroke, like that march into the Rhineland, like Austria, like Czechoslovakia. ... He was a Genius...
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 case not connected with Phoenix), favors another technique. It often looks up an anemic corporation, gives it a financial blood transfusion and an infusion of hardheaded management and takes its fee in the form of options on shares that prove valuable if the treatment is a success...
...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 card. By the time he was 40, he had changed to the management side of the tracks, and in 1933 as president of U. S. Steel's subsidiary, H. C. Frick Coke Co., carried the ball for Steel in its first New Deal struggle with labor. His successor: tall, greying Yaleman...