Word: forcefullness
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Senator-at-large. "A man who receives 15 million votes but not enough to be elected automatically retires to private life and leaves the 15 million unrepresented except in so far as their senators and their congressmen are concerned. As a remedy, I suggest that we can amend our constitution...
Edward Anderson ("Eddie") Stinson. flyer and plane manufacturer, and Errett Lobban ("E. L.") Cord, motor car manufacturer, celebrated their 35th birthdays nine days apart last July. Both have achieved large business success in their fields. But last week Mr. Stinson acknowledged Mr. Cord to be the greater executive. He did...
The Corn Exchange will lose its identity; Walter E. Frew, its board chairman, will probably become a National City director, retire from active banking. Able, dynamic, forceful Charles Edwin Mitchell, since 1921 National City head, will dominate the merged institution. So swiftly did Mr. Mitchell and Mr. Frew consummate the...
One of Harvard's chief claims to educational leadership lies in the trend away from forceful, towards voluntary instruction. The fact that this has become almost a commonplace to Harvard men under the form of the Lowellism "all education is self-education" ought not to obscure the fact that there...
Chess matches, unlike engagements of brawn, can be reproduced bodily. Experts, meditatively recapitulating the tournament games from published scores, opined that the one between Nimzowitsch and Dr. Milan Vidmar, Rector of the University of Ljubljana and eminent professor of electrodynamics, best illustrated the art and strategy of the new champion...