Word: brunt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clubs, and a heavyset, powerful man of 49 who was born in Osage Mission, Kan., last week were pitted against each other in the bitterest corporate war of the year. The young man was Walter Paul Paepcke, president of Container Corp. of America. The older man was John Paul Brunt, a director of Container Corp. Mr. Brunt is also executive vice president, although Mr. Paepcke has requested that, until his contract expires five years hence, Mr. Brunt take an "enforced leave of absence...
There is much to be said for the lawyer who faces the brunt of trained claim agents and railroad lawyers. I personally know of many cases where claim departments isolate badly injured men, get statements from them while in bad physical and mental condition from shock, and try every available trick to avoid liability. It takes a specialist to outfight these men, backed by a railroad bankroll. So cleanly has Michel fought that numerous railroad and corporation lawyers are among his written indorsers...
...line yesterday had Baldwin and Hageman at the ends, Trafford and Kuehn at the tackles, and Bancroft and Talbot at the guards flanking Gildea at center. Yesterday's B line, except for the ends was composed mostly of the men that have borne the brunt of the playing this year, having Ticknor at center, Trainer and Esterly at the guards, Kales and Upton at the tackles, with Faxon and Moushegian at the wings. Ogden was on the field but he still favors the slight injury that he received in the Dartmouth game, while Harding was excused from practice...
...American Federation of Labor, who brought a 1,000-page manuscript on the subject prepared by the late Samuel Gompers and supplemented it by his own up-to-the-minute observations. "The Communists have become a serious police problem. . . . Why should the labor unions be compelled to bear the brunt of this work...
...years wore on, more millions were supplied to carry out Mr. Carnegie's design. Originally intended simply to pension superannuated pedagogs, the Foundation began a campaign of thoroughgoing educational research. To date it has published 50 fat, dun-colored bulletins and reports. President Pritchett had to bear the brunt of hostile criticism when, in 1918, the Foundation ceased giving further pensions, inaugurated instead the Teachers Insurance & Annuity Association (assets: $18,992,018) which insures the beneficiary at cost. In the U. S. and Canada 8,132 provident pundits are now guaranteed old-age annuities...