Word: hardboiledness
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By end of 1938, 75-year-old Chairman Woolley had given way to a tightlipped, hardboiled, 58-year-old chairman, Henry M. Reed, who was given the green light by Radiator's bankers (J. P. Morgan & Co.), told to straighten out its rambling financial structure. One of Reed'...
When anti-New Dealers curse long-haired, radical theorists, they are unwittingly giving a three-word sketch of Jerome Frank. Too busy to think of haircuts, he often lets his greying mane hide his ears. Subtle, learned, mentally insatiable, he combs arcane source books for cosmic ideas, wholesales them in...
One holding company that remained a holding company was ATCO. At that time it was called Cord Corp. and its head, hardboiled, dynamic Errett Lobban Cord, was fast becoming the least regimented syndicateer in the flying game. But in 1937 Motorman Cord sold out his Cord Corp. holdings. About a...
Hardboiled, often embroiled Elisha Hanson, general counsel for the American Newspaper Publishers Association, is soft on pigeons. Exhibiting home-bred prize pouters in Philadelphia, he remarked: "There are philanderers and wantons among pigeons, but not many. Generally they are ... just a little more loyal to each other than the human...
The most sociable guy in the business, he is also the most hardboiled. He frequently treats producers rough. But he plays them smart. He may explode working for explosive Jed Harris, but he is a gent when working for gentlemanly Arthur Hopkins. He may write reams of copy about a...