Word: dudgeon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Quick Pickup. In high dudgeon, the American Automobile Association last week asked major U.S. oil companies why, with oil in surplus, had the price of gasoline gone up just as motorists were getting ready for summer driving? While other oil companies mulled over an answer, Mid-Continent Petroleum Corp. cut prices if a gallon in Kansas City, the first sizable cut in gasoline prices since...
...boss a good press. Moreover, Early had once given his old friend Johnson the best advice of his life. When Roosevelt broke his promise to Johnson and appointed Republican Henry L. Stimson as Secretary of War in 1940, Johnson went off to California in a mighty dudgeon. Republicans tried to win him over. Early followed Johnson to California, coaxed him to stick in the Democratic camp, and try, try again...
...high dudgeon, New York Stock Exchange President Emil Schram cried: "I am astonished, to say the least, that the Federal Reserve Bank of New York should associate itself with Marriner Eccles in his perfectly absurd effort to justify [his credit policy...
...reservations, too (e.g., U.S. airmen were briefed to destroy certain devices and documents in the event of forced landings on Russian soil). But, as allies go, the U.S. was certainly openhanded-and in return, its chief representative was snubbed, given the runaround, even scolded. "I was in a high dudgeon much of the time," says General Deane...
...high dudgeon, Wyatt denied that NHA was involved in any such skullduggery. True, there had been a phone call to NHA from "a lawyer" who represented himself as acting for Tucker. The lawyer had asked NHA to hold up the Lustron deal. But the delay was routine. When the lawyer had called back and said "the deal was off," the plant had been ordered turned over to Lustron...