Word: optimistically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Yugoslavia is one of the few European states which does not recognize the Soviet Union and encourages militant White Russians to colonize in Yugoslavia. "Yugoslavia does not adhere to any ideological bloc," concluded Europe's No. 1 Optimist last week, "but will continue to support the League of Nations...
...that it gained by that advice did not save it from the hard times which descended upon it and Wall Street's three other financial dailies.* Not until 1935 did Mr. Macfadden heed his own good advice by selling the Investment News. Last week his successor, Haydock ("Eternal Optimist") Miller, followed Macfadden's precept and example by bowing the Investment News out of existence...
Conant did say, however, that "only the most unrealistic optimist would believe that the accidental interplay of social and economic forces has resulted in the selection of the right 11 per cent of our youth for college work...
...last week it was apparent to even the most confirmed optimist that the U. S. is in the midst of a business depression quite severe enough to explain the 40% drop of the New York stock market in the past three months. But in Wall Street there is still much talk that the market's fall is due primarily to such "technical reasons" as lack of liquidity brought on by too much Government regulation. Regarded, therefore, as something of a seer is the Stock Exchange's President Charles R. Gay, who sounded off against Government regulation...
...Words But Proofs!" No facile optimist, the King is known at court to feel that continuance of Europe's piling up of armaments at the present rate can only lead at last to a major war. The alternative, as His Majesty sees it, is for statesmen to learn something about economics and apply what they learn toward easing the world's stresses & strains, instead of holding endless conferences in terms of politics & prestige. King Leopold last summer made a public appeal for action along these lines so trenchant that the London Laborite Daily Herald said it "may alter...