Word: hardheadedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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But Jimmy Byrnes, who combines his liberalism with hardheaded native conservatism and has friends on both sides of the political railroad tracks, had an unpublicized job that was even bigger. On the home front he was rapidly becoming assistant president, with a clear hand to smooth ruffled party tempers, to...
Last week Yale's hardheaded Law Dean Ashbel Green Gulliver bluntly warned law schools that they would be forced to merge or close. "It's a hard thing to recommend," said he, "but I think it is inevitable."
"Young men who are doing our fighting are, to a surprising extent, thinking about the war's end ... in terms of what kind of a world we shall have after peace comes. They are thinking realistically. . . . The politician who preaches 'normalcy' at the end of this war...
Significant Fact: Hardheaded, practical Bill Short, whose idea it was, is past president of the Washington State Federation of Labor and a former coal miner who was educated to golf and country-club life through his dickerings with businessmen on wages & hours problems.
The Beautiful Bums. Then he moved in on Brooklyn, whose seventh-place Dodgers were in hock to the Brooklyn Trust Co., creditor for half a million dollars. MacPhail-who is never better than when talking hardheaded characters out of important sums-actually sweet-talked the Brooklyn Trust Co. into putting...