Word: hardheadedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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As free-enterprising businessmen, their hardheaded purpose was to make money. But as internationalists, they were well aware of the political implications. By making the oil available to all the world (Russia would be able to buy as cheaply as anyone else), they would do their part to clear the...
There, in 1938, George MacLeod began to gather about him a group of young ministers and laymen. Together they evolved their own Rule of faith and worship-a Rule which makes them seem at once as mystical as Franciscans and as hardheaded as Stalinists.
To run TACA, Waterman picked Jack W. Thornburg, 44, vice president and general manager of Waterman Airlines, Inc., who firmly believes that "the speculative, romantic thing" is out of airlines and the era of hardheaded operation in.
In 1946, for good reason, he was appointed Under Secretary of the Treasury. Other Truman appointments had provoked loud outcries. But Gardner was safe & sound, middle-of-the-road, and commanded respect in Congress. He had helped his friend Fred Vinson (then Secretary) on the laborious backstage negotiations for the...
Hyvää Päivää. After the war, in token that he had been forgiven for the Finnish fiasco, Zhdanov was made head of the Finnish Control Commission. Finns expected the worst, but Zhdanov is too hardheaded to bear a grudge. At Helsinki's airport a...