Word: ruggedness
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Unlike the great planters and white trash farther north, the white men of southeastern Alabama are neither very rich nor very poor, work harder than their Negro help and run to rugged individualism. In that section is the drowsy market town of Dothan (pop.: 16,000) and the combustible newspaper...
In 1927 he went back to Texaco as vice president in charge of shipping and exporting. Not even in a company with the rugged tradition of Texaco was there room for two such rugged individuals as Torkild Rieber and Texaco's President Ralph Clinton Holmes. President Holmes, being the...
Such was the verbatim answer not of one vindictive ex-wife but of no less than 270, during the three years that indignant Executive Secretary Jack Anthony of the Alimony Reform League of New York State has been prying into the psychology of women who have their onetime mates jailed...
Sauciest exponent of rugged individualism is John M. Nichols, president of small First National Bank of Englewood, Ill. which boasts 100% liquidity (cash & Government bonds). When breezy Banker Nichols heard last year that National Bank of Commerce of Houston, Tex. was 80% liquid, he wrote to RFChairman Jesse Jones who...
Unhappy Wives dislike being watched. They find their advice is seldom asked. They prefer easy jobs to hard jobs, get to work late, neglect details, are careless with their belongings. They incline to daydream, have "useless thoughts," feel inferior, have dizzy spells, regard themselves as nervous. They dislike to lend...