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...drunk. His employees would not have believed him. Yet when Charles Michael Schwab, board chairman of Bethlehem Steel Corp., said those words last week at a Manhattan meeting of the American Iron & Steel Institute, his auditors were not greatly startled. Though they knew "Charley" Schwab for the most unregenerate optimist in U. S. Industry, a notorious backslapper, hand shaker and well wisher, they also knew that what he said really did reflect the modern concept of business in dealing with critical economic upheavals and serious unemployment...
...right. You preach thrift and economy and when your readers have saved all they can, send them to me. I'll take them- and how. Presidents have always been my long suit (not underwear), especially when they are senators. . . . You know the difference between the pessimist and the optimist-the pessimist thinks all girls are bad and the optimist hopes and prays they are. . . . Business is getting better and better and although it may look bad around these parts they say business in Chicago is still 'holding up'." Following the style of "Tom Thumb" colyums...
...want him for the Lord Mayor's show- or words to that effect. On p. 30 of your Aug. 4 number you speak of an ogopogo in British Columbia. Which came first, the Co-optimist's ogopogo or the Indians...
...Ochs, publisher of the New York Times, told the American Club of Paris not of a new era but of a new epoch. After admitting that business conditions throughout the world were not entirely satisfactory, that in some regions conditions were indeed acute, Mr. Ochs said: "I am an optimist and I am glad I am one. ... I think the day is not far distant when there will be little or no excuse for unemployment, when the reward for industry, inventive genius and political wisdom will far surpass anything heretofore known in the history of the human race...
...Schacht, having upset the applecart, set about picking up the apples. Within 24 hours he announced that he (i.e., the Reichsbank) would supply the needed cash. The political neck of Optimist Hilferding seemed saved and the whole affair might have passed off as a teapot-tempest, except for the famed Berliner Tageblatt whose editor announced that he possessed the inside story, upset the apples again...