Word: highmindedness
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Sherwood would not deny his bias in favor of Roosevelt and Hopkins, yet it is a bias frequently dissolved by candor. There is enough in these pages to explain why Hopkins was feared and hated by men of all parties. Noting that Harry "was addicted to the naked insult," Sherwood...
Both the MRP and the Communists were expected to drop a few seats. If the MRP lost more, as many observers foresaw, the Communists might give their big rivals a close race for Assembly leadership. The Socialists, even though they may not lose heavily in this week's election...
Customarily any bedfellowship between the Press and Big Business is viewed with great alarm by highminded journalists and especially by such watchdogs of the press as Editor & Publisher (tradepaper). Even the Federal Trade Commission once interested itself in the discovery that International Paper & Power Co. held substantial notes of 13...
A ghetto family adopts him, the Lipshitzes. He outpunches the Grogan gang, gets used to elevated trains and a million smells. A Bowery bartender who handles pugilists takes him in tow. Like most successful bartenders, Pug Malone is clean-living, highminded. John Breen serves beer, knocks out bruisers, goes to...
Pacifism is described as "Gotten on cowardice by misplaced idealism in the emotional stress of the war." I have a vague notion that if I could grasp the meaning of that phrase, I should most certainly disagree with it. Pacifism, in some cases, may have been used as a cloak...