Word: quiteness
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...well known as Ivy Lee is able Thomas Joseph Ross, Jr., 39. Fourteen years ago he quit the New York Sun, on which he had been a steady-going "wheelhorse" reporter of the Frank Ward O'Malley period, to work for Publicist Lee. Not only did he rise to No. 1 man on the Lee staff, devoting most of his time to Pennsylvania Railroad and Chrysler, but he became a private relations counsel between his temperamental chief and the rest of the staff. When Mr. Lee would abruptly summon his staff to meet him in his uptown suite...
...command from the President which it would be lese majeste to decline. Mr. Teagle's argument: two Standard Oil men on one committee would be too many. Meeting one morning in the Carlton Hotel in Washington Mr. Teagle put to Mr. Moffett an ultimatum: refuse the appointment or quit Standard...
...subsidizes. To the poor women who come to the clinics and hospitals the women Fascists pass on Italy's peculiar kind of "feminism." Politically aggressive in other countries, feminism in Italy is politically self-effacing, advertises the beauties of motherhood and domesticity. It advises women factory workers to quit their jobs if possible, all women to grow "healthfully buxom," "give strong, healthy children to the country...
Graft? The Department of the Interior has never quite lived down the bad name Albert Bacon Fall gave it as a result of the oil scandals a decade ago. When honest Harold Ickes took office, he promised the country he would not be "the black sheep" of the Cabinet. Yet, like everyone else, he knows perfectly well that three billion Federal dollars cannot be poured out of the Treasury without some of it spilling over improperly. Day & night he reiterates his determination to keep graft out of his Public Works Administration. He can trust himself and his immediate aides...
...with the cattlemen round his native Albuquerque, N. Mex. After a restless course at two universities he passed his forest ranger's examination, was waiting for an appointment when his father. New Mexico's only Representative, offered him a government job in Washington. After three weeks he quit the service to try newspaper work, in Washington. Savannah, Richmond. Back in Washington again as correspondent of the Chicago Record-Herald, his job was "to keep in touch with all the members of one state delegation in Congress, and I achieved an intimate and disillusioning knowledge of these gentlemen...