Word: bulling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Good Works & Bad. Thus Leon Henderson, watchdog of the nation's prices, big bad wolf to Congress and bull in a china shop to all & sundry, dropped out of one of the biggest of all wartime offices. For all his polite interchange of letters with his President, Henderson did not fall. He was pushed: by the farm bloc, by Midwestern Congressmen who loathe gasoline rationing, by Democrats who thought that his restrictions had been the biggest factor in November's election returns. And perhaps the Administration felt it was time to sacrifice him when a new blunder over...
Chairman's Progress. Harrison Spangler has been a stanch Republican wheel horse* all his adult life. Only once did he slip his halter-when he became a Bull Mooser in 1912. He worked up through precinct, county and district jobs to become National Committeeman in 1931. In 1936 he bossed Alf Landon's Chicago headquarters. In 1940 he backed Senator Taft's Presidential aspirations...
Soft-voiced, sentimental Manuel Avila Camacho, the man of harmony, sat between doddering Ezequiel Chávez and post-reactionary González Martinez. At the same table were ex-Fascist José Vasconcelos, onetime Presidents Pascual Ortiz Rubio (his qualifications for entry: love poems scribbled in youth) and bull-necked Portes Gil. There was almost no talk of politics; the wine and the company prompted sublimer subjects...
Last week the Japs had a big edge on naval strength in the South Pacific. This week that edge had been whittled down, particularly in the vital cruiser category. As if to answer critics of the Navy , the forces under Vice Admiral William F. ("Bull") Halsey met the Japs and slugged it out. Three bloody days later the Japs were retreating northward from Guadalcanal waters and the Navy had won one of the most satisfactory victories...
...Bull" Halsey, the old carrier task-force specialist, now almost without aircraft carriers, braced himself...