Word: losers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When a fellow gets beaten in a race, he is a mighty poor loser if he attempts in any way to explain his defeat. When a fellow has not been in a race, however, it seems legitimate to call that fact to the attention of those who seem to believe that someone else beat...
...wide experience, for he was one of a group of economists who were instrumental in bringing about a "State-engineered" recovery from the depression in Australia, and well knows the relations between the government and private enterprise. In spite of the fact that the state is often a "bad loser and a poor employer" when it undertakes the functions of the entrepreneur in industrial projects, he advocates an increase in the amount of control exercised by the state, but with still enough leeway left to private employers to exercise that imagination and foresight which has been so instrumental...
Having spent a fortnight questioning those who might have profited from the $5,000,000,000 evaporation of U. S. investment trust assets between 1929 and 1936, the Securities & Exchange Commission's Inquisitor David Schenker last week turned his attention to a notable loser. Up to the witness stand in Washington's SEC building stepped tall, lank Vice President Charles Franklin ("Boss") Kettermg of General Motors Corp...
...States on opposite sides of the nation Democratic primaries last week gave President Roosevelt two resounding victories. In each, however, enough non-Roosevelt votes were cast to set political quidnuncs to arguing on the significance, if any, of the loser's strength...
...venture. Mr. Cullinan had quit the company a few years before in one of those periodic management eruptions which have given Texaco such a peculiarly individualistic tang ever since it was founded in 1902. Mr. Cullinan had called for the usual showdown with the board of directors. A loser, he picked up his hat and walked out, with no hard feelings, to start what he hoped would be another Texaco. When he needed a good oil man he went to his old company, persuaded it to release Captain Rieber. But by 1927 Captain Rieber was back with Texaco again...