Word: wholeheartedness
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Author Lawrence writes her brutal story with an icy detachment that will not recommend any of her characters to a reader's wholehearted sympathy. Indignation, disgust, pity she certainly succeeds in arousing. And for insurance men Years Are So Long should be required reading.
Fannie Hurst would have choired the paean with more gusto. Horatio Alger would have awarded his hero a more thoroughgoing financial success. But not even Zenith's Chamber of Commerce could have done a more wholehearted job of boosting than this onetime Babbitt-baiter has done.
"Step into my parlor and I will buy some of your preferred stock." So the RFC urged U. S. bankers last September. By last week over 4,500 banks had stepped into the RFC parlors. Only a few big banks had, like Manhattan's cautious First National, declined the...
To the adjourning special session he sent his heartiest thanks for "making possible a more sincere and wholehearted co-operation between the legislative and executive branches of the Government than has been witnessed in many a long year."
"The President's proclamation should have the wholehearted support and co-operation of every citizen," said Citizen Herbert Clark Hoover, none too well off for cash at a Manhattan hotel.