Word: straightforwardness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Getting down at last to business the President of the New York Stock Exchange gave Italian tycoons who may want to list securities in Manhattan, some advice, crisp, correct, straightforward...
...last year at Princeton : "There is nothing, apart from the ever-important cultivation of the spiritual values, which your country and my country needs so much as the cultivation of esthetic values; not in the foolish and pretentious fashion of the esthetes of the Victorian era but in the straightforward manly fashion of many of the great artists of the Renaissance period. . . . Unfortunately I have never learned any handicraft but I hope to make good this defect when I retire to become an enthusiastic if perhaps a belated bookbinder. . . . Even if bookbinding is but a small thing I console myself...