Word: bulling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Picture "John Bull." Now make him taller-6 ft. 6 in. tall. Swell his great girth, expand his barrel chest. Make him the biggest, handsomest, beefiest John Bull in England. Dress him in a well-cut morning coat, impeccable striped trousers and white spats. Give him a handsome cane. Crown him with a high silk hat. Make him a Knight of Justice of St. John of Jerusalem. Make him the colossal figure who merged under the British Royal Mail Steam Packet Co. the largest group of shipping companies ever created (TIME, Feb. 23). Do all this and you have Baron...
...combine. The Lea-Caldwell collapse gave him his chance. But he is not popular in rural Tennessee where he is denounced as a "boss of a city machine." To this his henchmen reply: "Why, Ed rode into Memphis from a Mississippi farm at the age of 18 on a bull calf...
...position which carries considerable prestige among the women† of California. Harried by ladies of wealth and prominence in both ends of his commonwealth, unsmiling Governor Rolph had for some time considered appointing two social welfare directors to placate both sections. In the end, however, he took the bull by the horns, gave Mrs. Rheba Crawford Splivalo of San Francisco (his own end of the State...
...angry, bull-necked Argentine denounced the U. S. Tariff last week in words so strong that the U. S. State Department grew worried. Half a dozen other speakers at the National Foreign Trade Council convention in Manhattan last week sided with him. From his bountiful cornucopia of good cheer Dr. Julius Klein, Assistant Secretary of Commerce, poured reassuring Tariff figures with which to uphold the Hoover Administration. When the Council adjourned and drew up its annual, lengthy, vague resolution, the fighting word "tariff" did not appear...
Topics. "It's Asia's century," said one-time Governor Wallace Rider Farrington of Hawaii, a bull on Pacific trade...