Word: opportunist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Richard Ellsworth Savage, first introduced in 1919 as a young Harvard poet turned opportunist among the glittering opportunities of the Peace Conference, is shown in The Big Money as a prematurely tired junior executive who works hard at being yes-man to J. Ward Moorehouse, the great stuffed shirt of the public relations world. When J. Ward finally falters, Dick Savage is right there to take over...
Blunt fact is that the American Federation of Labor is not and never has been vitally concerned with the laboring masses of the U. S. It was organized in 1886 by tough shrewd, opportunist Samuel Gompers as a loose federation of unions of skilled workmen, whose realistic aim was to establish monopolies of their skills. Through the 1920's it dwindled and declined for two reasons: 1) a lack of militant, progressive leadership as its officials became absorbed in guarding their vested interests, enjoying their fat salaries, spending their energies in jurisdictional squabbles; 2) development of machines and mass...
...Pledge Brown at all. Last May Alaska's Delegate to Congress Anthony Joseph Dimond filled more than four pages of the Congressional Record with an expose of Brown's career. After leaving Alaska, where he was arrested for stealing a woman's purse, this extraordinary opportunist, whose full name, according to Delegate Dimond, is Wilbur Pledge Brown, worked his way across the U. S., partly by passing bad checks and thieving, but mostly by selling his stock article on Matanuska Valley to "at least a dozen newspapers." In November it was printed in the Topeka (Kansas) Capital...
Shot 1?Diego Rivera is now no more than an opportunist and an entertainer of tourists...
...clever and unscrupulous hypocrite; a man who, with superhuman ingenuity and foresight, is able in some miraculous manner to be always on the winning side; a person whose incompetence in business and salesmanship is balanced by an uncanny and unfair mastery of diplomatic wiles; a coldblooded, prescient, ruthless opportunist; a calculating and conceited egoist; a cad with occasional instincts for that strange indulgence for which they have no word in their own language, and which they designate by our own expression, 'fair play...