Word: hardheadedness
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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...
"Let us get up petitions to remove these namby-pamby professors stumbling on their White Horse Truth, and get some good hardheaded businessmen in our colleges to teach us what we have to know to become a success."
His adviser Mike Straus once declared: "He's ornery, hardheaded, the damndest and most unreasonable hotheaded man you ever saw." Ickes, listening eagerly, crowed: "You see?"