Word: opportunistic
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...credit currency outstanding and with it raise the price level. On the surface, to an observer who sees from day to day only the disjointed and apparently unpredictable actions of the Administration, the whole experiment is apt to appear as the muddled meddling of a happy-go-lucky opportunist whose disturbing though well meant efforts are proving more a hindrance than a help to recovery...
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...predecessors, I have read from cover to cover?you print an interesting discussion of Major Angas' book, The Coming American Boom; and while giving to one of its publishers, Mr. M. Lincoln Schuster, due credit for his skill and initiative, you speak of Mr. Schuster as "as shrewd an opportunist as there is in the publishing world." In every fine sense this seems true; but if you meant by "opportunist" a man who seizes every chance to aggrandize himself, regardless of principles, I trust you will let me contradict you. Time and again I have seen Mr. Schuster vote...
...opportunist" TIME meant that sharp Publisher Schuster is alert to every opportunity to score a publishing coup, did not mean he was lacking in principle. But TIME cannot subscribe to Author Durant's concluding maxim: "Of the living, nothing but what is good...
...that M. Lincoln Schuster and Richard L. Simon will. These two bright young publishers, who together are Simon & Schuster, Inc., put Lawrence Lee Bazley Angas in their idea file late last year. With few exceptions. Major Angas has hitherto published his works privately, but Mr. Schuster, as shrewd an opportunist as there is in the publishing world, was sure he could make the Major a potential best seller. Not until last week, however, did Mr. Schuster come to terms with Major Angas. Then with typical energy Messrs. Simon & Schuster put out the book in three days. The original print order...