Word: tact
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Author Faulkner, a former WPA official, tells this shabby and pathetic tale with great literary tact, balancing against the slapstick ignorance and innate apathy of his unheroic characters, their deep sense of their own personal dignity, natural courtesy, terrible patience, thwarted honesty. No idealization, Men Working is the most human book that has been written about WPA workers, the saddest and the funniest...
...these are signs of Jesse Jones's tact, they do not obscure the facts of who is in control. The banking patronage, for example, is split several ways: some to Manhattan's Chase, Chemical and City Banks, some to Trust Co. of Chicago, but the cream to Chicago's Continental Illinois, which gets the trusteeship for the first-mortgage bonds. Chairman of Continental Illinois is Jesse Jones's appointee Walter Joseph Cummings...
Fifteen years ago a bond salesman was a cocksure college athlete who sold securities on his name, his nerve, his funny stories. Today he seldom jokes, needs tact and a knowledge of bonds rather than nerve. Fortnight ago, the U. S. bond salesman of 1940 had a chance to prove his skill. The job: to sell $108,000,000 of Southern California Edison 3% bonds at 104 to yield 2.78%-a lower yield even than most top-flight municipal bonds...
...backslapper, he knows first names and how to handle district leaders. He runs his machine by persuasion and tact. If there is any man who can do for the Republican Presidential candidate what James A. Farley did for Franklin Roosevelt, it is Joe Martin. Roosevelt's Ed Flynn is an earthy politician whose experience is highly practical but largely limited to The Bronx...
Part of its strange power Strange Cargo derives from the tact, restraint and experience of Director Frank Borzage, who made A Farewell to Arms. Part it derives from the fact that all the actors are as perfectly typed as Joan Crawford, who, under one guise or another, has been playing Sadie Thompson so long that the part is almost second nature. Like her, Hollywood has been making Devil's Island pictures so long it has almost perfected the formula. This perfect Hollywood formula is turned into a highly unusual picture by the surprising performance of Ian Hunter...