Word: wisdom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...liquor crowd, the forces of prostitution and gambling have, for the sake of truth, to be included with them, therefore it must be said that as a public man he is the deadliest foe in America today of the forces of moral progress and true political wisdom...
...Smith cared nothing for Dr. Straton's opinion of his "true political wisdom." Gov. Smith was to debate prohibition throughout the campaign, had no desire to take time out on this subject with just one parson, however dry. But Gov. Smith has waited for a chance to get at and dispose of this matter of VICE. Whisperings throughout the country, and especially in the South, were trying and would try to connect him with VICE. The more the ordinary man got to life him, the more the ordinary woman might be alarmed. In some vague...
...York Times . . . quotes you as saying from the pulpit of your church that, as a public man, I am the deadliest foe in America today of the forces of moral progress and true political wisdom...
...Sure things" and "hot tips," while still plentiful, carry light weight with sophisticated investors. But "financial counsel" has the color of wisdom and respectability. An idol crashed, therefore, when members and guests of Manhattan's Delta Upsilon Club listened, last week, to an address by John Moody, publisher of Moody's Manual, President of Moody's Investors' Service, financial analyst, author of The Art of Investing and How to Invest Money Wisely. Said Analyst Moody, humbly...
...compelling was the prestige of cosmopolitan Gov. Strong that it seemed almost presumptuous when Chicago bankers ventured, last fall, to' challenge the wisdom of his international money-juggling. If wise Gov. Strong, fresh from a meeting of master minds, thought Chicago should reduce its rediscount rate from 4 to 3½% to aid his European comrades in finance, only bad manners or sheer contrariness could explain Chicago's dissent. Gov. Strong was cast for the hero's role in the drama of U. S. money. Obviously, all that remained for Chicago was to be the juvenile...