Word: temperamental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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In dealing with the current Recession, a less confident executive than. Franklin Roosevelt might have made the tactical blunder of adopting the attitude of most business that it was: 1) unforeseen and 2) thoroughly alarming. Equipped with a temperament to which crises are almost a necessity, Franklin Roosevelt did nothing...
Another, showing a rhythmical temperament, is:
Jovial Captain. Ernest Orlando Lawrence has an ideal temperament for a man who, in such a position, must be an educator and organizer as well as a crack physicist. He is jovial and easy-going but knows how to handle men and get things done. His grandfather was an immigrant...
On the other side there is, within and without the New Deal, a vociferous and active group of financial reformers. If Mr. Douglas does not make Wall Street dance to his cat-o'-nine-tails, they will soon turn upon him as bitterly as they did on Chairman Landis...
Sleek, medium-sized Marcel Rochas, a conventional French brunet, is grandson of a Burgundian shepherd and son of an Avignon artist. He was born in Paris in 1902, and presently set out to be a lawyer. He readily explains how his Gallic temperament led him to become a dressmaker: