Word: bullheadedness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The real test came on Gore's amendment to prohibit the Government from paying income taxes for private firms under contract to AEC. Again, Knowland, keeping on the pressure, disregarded the script and asked that debate be limited. Gore said he would not operate under such restrictions, and if...
During 4½ years as mayor of New York, Irish-born Bill O'Dwyer often seemed to be doing his bullheaded best to commit political suicide. He made an enemy of President Harry Truman by publicly opposing him as a candidate before the 1948 Democratic Convention. He feuded with...
The government is expected to appeal the decision to the central Supreme Court -the same body which ruled against Malan in the first place. If that court rules against him again, the bullheaded old Prime Minister can call his parliamentary "High Court" into session to reverse the Supreme Court. The...
As Under Secretary of War and boss of the Army's $100 billion procurement program, Republican Patterson urged a sweeping draft of civilian manpower, wanted to bar millions of automobiles from the highways to save rubber and gasoline. His explosion over the sight of valuable trucks delivering soft drinks...
When he is in a good mood, New York's Mayor Bill O'Dwyer is the kind of Irishman who can charm a bird down out of a tree. But when the spirit moves him, he can be so bullheaded, blunt-tongued, and bent on the grand, illogical...