Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Many of the correspondents suspected Mr. Shearer of being exactly what he was. Some felt that his game was to wreck the Conference at any cost. A few, but not many, disliked him, although disliking such a genial person was difficult. But scarcely one of them felt able to refuse to look over the daily Shearer
Last week Mr. Volstead, asked whether he would run for Congress again, made answer: "This is a sad time to talk politics but . . . it would be difficult for me to refuse...
Tracing the electrical activity of J. P. Morgan & Co. would not be difficult if the matter could be expressed in terms of Mr. Morgan personally exchanging bags of gold for turbines and transmission systems. Unfortunately, however, the utility field does not lend itself to such simplification. The House of Morgan is not sole owner of any of the utility companies in which it is interested; its holdings are usually no more than a substantial minority, not including an operating control; and if it chooses to regard itself as investor in many companies but as manager of none, such a position...
...science of management: here is the real center of business. This is the thing which business men of the older fashion meant when they said executives could not be trained outside of business. Now they are realizing how little business itself knows of this delicate and difficult matter. It applies not only to the factory but to all activities of business; it deals not merely with machines and methods, but with all the ordered work of human beings. It has still to develop its wider applications; it has yet to make of the factory nomerely a mechanizing evil necessary...
Getting dollars to replace pfennigs is almost as devious and difficult. The Graf Zeppelin was built by pfennigs. In 1925 the Luftschiffbau Zeppelin was virtually bankrupt. Two ships which it had built, the Nordstern and Bodensee (since wrecked) were confiscated by France and Italy for War damages. The Los Angeles the U. S. forced it to build. Dr. Eckener, great publicist,* organized the Zeppelin- Eckener Spends (gifts, alms) and despatched collectors with small boxes to German street corners, theatres, beer halls, to collect pfennigs from money-pinched patriots. The pfennigs totalled enough to build the Graf Zeppelin...