Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this way himself. In fact, his searing, caustic criticism of the public press does much to shake one's youthful confidence in a romantic, Richard-Harding-Davis like of which all members are gentlemen, all editors outwardly cytrlcal but inwardly tender and human, all owners impressive and domineering but quick to discern loyalty and ability in their devoted neophytes...
...rewards are not large. If one gets $15 a week as a reporter, one may better one's self by getting a job as board-boy at $20 or after the proper education, as a bricklayer at $13 a day. Journalism has never been regarded as a "get-rick-quick proposition for its followers but the satisfaction and the interest which it supplies have always been considered adequate compensation by those who love the game. After all this is what it comes to. Those who find their greatest pleasure in getting the news, or in writing about it, stick...
...physical difficulties, he has a way of applying himself to the business in hand and bringing forth a thoroughly sound and common sense conclusion. The late Senator Ollie James of Kentucky once compared him to a snapping turtle. "He looks harmless, but just prod him once and see how quick he'll bite...
...Baruch was quick to challenge the accuracy of Judge Gary's disclosure, and especially the Judge's inference that "it was a gigantic communistic scheme." According to Mr. Baruch, at the outbreak of the War the American steelmakers, flushed with great profits made on sales to European belligerents, wanted to charge the U. S. Government the same high prices as had been obtained from the Allies. To this Mr. Baruch strenuously objected. The War Industries Board passed a resolution to take over the steel plants "if the steel interests should not be willing to give their full cooperation...
...greatest dangers of a "building boom," apart from the loss of invested capital always involved, is the rickety and shoddy type of construction erected. The speculative builder wants to finish his house and unload it on someone else for a quick and substantial profit. His attitude toward material, plans and workmanship is apt to be entirely subservient to this desire. So long as a house will look all right until someone buys it, he cares little what shape it will foe in a few years hence...