Word: stalwartness
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...today less than $50,000,000, and at that the U.S. investor has been lucky. Small Cuban producers, unable to compete with the big corporate plantations, have been ruined on a nationwide scale, driven to suicide and beggary. As the able lawyer representing Cuba's sugar interests, tall, stalwart, snowy-crested Thomas Lincoln Chadbourne put through the International Agreement ("Chadbourne Plan"), running from 1930 to 1935, by which its signatories-Cuba. Java and the European beet sugar bloc (Germany, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary, Belgium, Jugoslavia)-hoped to win a profitable price for sugar by heroic sacrifices in production. Cuba under...
...mighty cheer went up from a crowd of 1,000, mostly Negroes, at Atlantic City Airport one day last week as the good airplane Pride of Atlantic City floated to earth. Out of the cabin stepped two stalwart Negroes, C. Alfred Anderson, transport pilot, and Dr. Albert E. Forsythe ("The Flying Dentist") who holds a private license. They had just completed the first flight across the U. S. and back ever made by Negroes. Elapsed time: 11 days...
Every Summer School has its famous characters. Among the most outstanding features in feminine reflections at the Union we find a stalwart youth with ebony mane popularly known as the Answer to a Maiden's Prayer. But the most vigorous attention and well-meaning conjecturers have produced no real results. Our unnoticing hero has formed no feminine attachment to allay the disquieting fears of our fascinated schoolmarms, and we are beginning to question whether there really existed a maiden's prayer, or whether the answer was short circuited. Here at least is a case where wire-tapping would...
These were but preliminary discoveries. Greater ones would follow, and Col. Charles Hoyt March. Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, prodded his workers on to greater efforts. A stalwart, six foot, 62-year-old country squire, he has a devouring hatred of slickers who sell bad securities. Born in Minnesota, high-school educated, he became a high-powered land salesman with the reputation of selling ''40 acres a day." (Once he and his brother sold 20,000 Canadian acres in a day.) Turning to law he took on Great Northern Railway as a prize client...
...Grandfather Franz had a brewery in Manhattan in 1850; his father, the elder Jake, learned brewing from the time he was ten and started a separate brewery of his own. The younger Jake was also brought up in the brewery, became one of the dandies of New York, a stalwart of Tammany (eight years in Congress), was made Colonel by New York's Governor. Father & son worked hand in hand. They had a house on Fifth Avenue. In 1913 they built themselves a brand-new 2,000,000-bbl. brewery; they grew to rival Ehret's. Both were...