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Emerson; there was an optimist! Famine, discase, suffering, and the greatest disaster of all, could not shake his serene faith that a benevolent power was behind all evils. Did cholera ravage a city? A cure would be found. Were ships lost at sea? Better ones would be built. Did men fight? A better social order would come...
...leadership, installed young, earnest Bill McChesney Martin on Sing Sing First Baseman Dick Whitney's throne. But Broker Pierce's merger with an underwriter has little to do with the New Deal, more to do with his notorious optimism. Favorite Pierce dictum: "I'd rather be optimistic and wrong than pessimistic and half-right." But his latest move follows the classic pattern of the late Financier E. H. Harriman. who always bought at the bottom. Wall Street, long in the dumps (a Stock Exchange seat last week sold at $48,000-lowest since 1918), has to Optimist...
...murals will be hung sky-high in Washington, critics flocked to see them at close range, found Artist Sterne had taken The Struggle for Justice as a theme. (He first thought of painting The Triumph of Justice, "couldn't think of 20 instances.") No mellow optimist, Painter Sterne started Justice's trek at Brute Force, then let it struggle slowly forward through Greed, Cruelty, Intolerance, Superstition, False Witness, Scientific Evidence and Environment to an end in Red Tape...
...rules can be broken. All rules have been broken. However, I am enough of an optimist to accept the new agreement between Harvard, Yale, and Princeton to head off the spreading corruption of inter-collegiate athletics at its face value," Tunis said yesterday...
...Zaharoff, Lord Rothermere and the King of Sweden at Monte Carlo, built an $8,000,000 chateau on Riverside Drive, bought a 1,000-acre estate at Loretto, Pa., his birthplace. In the depth of Depression he never lost his faith in big business. Said he: "I am an optimist by nature. Something is bound to happen." But for the first World War's great profiteer and patriot, World War II came 18 days too late...