Word: hardheadedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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At home in Springfield, Vt., he is the progressive chairman of the board of the crack Jones & Lamson Machine Co. His labor skirts are clean. The United Electrical local at J. & L. is on record to the effect that he has given it "absolutely fair treatment." The natives know he...
*For Spanish politicians, sex has long been an unnerving problem. Ten years ago, even Spain's rugged, hardheaded Anarchists found time at a moment of acute national crisis to grapple with the question of public nudity. Their last national convention, meeting in Saragossa's bull ring a few...
To fill Hillman's job as president of the Amalgamated, the clothing workers chose another old Hillman follower: secretary-treasurer Jacob S. Potofsky. His greying spade beard gives him the appearance of an elegant professor. He is a devout conservative and a hardheaded labor businessman.
West with United. During United's period of consolidation, net earnings fell from $2,527,424 in 1941 to $1,970,971 in 1945. One big item was $580,000 spent last fall by President Dart to move United-Rexall's headquarters from Boston to Los Angeles. This...
The Silk Stocking Congressman then threw some hardheaded political arguments at his critics. "You can't be elected by reactionaries in my district. There are only 29,000 Republicans. ... I was elected by 77,000 votes, which means that about 50,000 independents voted for me. For years you...