Word: chip
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dapper, slick Lawrence Wood ("Chip") Robert Jr., former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, cordially disliked by the New Deal. When Chip's prosperous Atlanta contracting firm, Robert & Co., grabbed off one juicy segment after another of the defense pie, enemies effected his ousting from the secretaryship of the National Democratic Party...
Question last week was whether they would be able to use them. The most important ingredient of all-a benevolent nod from Washington-was nowhere to be seen. If the New Deal has no use for Chip Robert, Avila Camacho has a lot of use for the friendship of the New Deal. It is a good customer for his useless silver. It may, if his negotiations are successful, even become a good customer for Mexico's expropriated oil. In such delicate times, Avila Camacho, for all his hospitality to pioneering principles, would not want to incur Washington...
...Lookouts won the Southern Association pennant for the first time in 40 years, beat the Texas League champions in the Dixie Series. Three years ago Joe Engel decided that he wanted to buy the Lookouts. He did not have enough cash. So he got 1,700 fans to chip in, buy the club for $125,000. That year, attendance tripled. The fan-owned Lookouts made a profit of $50,000. The following year Chattanooga won another pennant. But last summer, lured by the intriguing water sports at newly opened TVA Chickamauga Dam, only seven miles outside the city, Chattanoogans deserted...
...Month. After he had turned out several best-sellers at Oklahoma, the Princeton University Press nabbed him two years ago. Brandt told Princeton professors how to write readable stuff, last year had six of his books recommended by the Book-of-the-Month Club. Among them was Chip Off My Shoulder, which he wheedled out of Scripps-Howard's Thomas L. Stokes...
...issue was rooted in the man's own obstinate independence. Independence was basic in the Willkie character-a tough, chip-on-the-shoulder independence that ranged from brute stubbornness to a rooted belief in the individual rights of man. Out of it had come the philosophy of his campaign: that the individual is greater than the State; that the purpose of Government is to make men free, since only free men will be able to build a productive and prosperous society. At Elwood he had said: "Only the strong can be free and only the productive can be strong...