Word: headedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...course Jim Farley's grudge against McNutt is rooted in intraparty politics, but my hair is enough like Farley's to help me understand that the grudge is fertilized by a hopeless envy of a head of hair like that...
...Treasury of a brand New Deal. On leaving he turned over the presidency of his American Car & Foundry Co. (second largest U. S. railroad car maker) to a little white-haired lawyer, Charles J. Hardy, who had been the company's General Counsel. Charlie Hardy has been head of American Car & Foundry ever since...
About the same time that twinkle-eyed Mr. Woodin left, Señor Oscar Benjamin Cintas, a director of the company and head of its Latin American subsidiaries, also went to the capital to take an official job: Cuban Ambassador to the U. S. Sometimes Charlie Hardy went down to see his friend Oscar and enjoyed the excellent Bacardi cocktails at the Cuban Embassy. After almost a year in Washington Oscar gave up his embassy and returned to the Latin American companies...
...admission price to 50?. At the eight large parking lots he slashed the 50?-fee in half. To find out why more customers weren't coming in he planned a questionnaire. It looked as though Grover Whalen would soon have to cut the general admission to 50? a head to get enough People of Today to patronize his World of Tomorrow...
...year of violent change for 63-year-old Boss Groesbeck. Its turning point was the Supreme Court's decision against Electric Bond & Share in its test case on the Public Utility Holding Company Act. Groesbeck saw the handwriting on the wall, quit beating his head against it. Promptly, Bond & Share registered with SEC. Holding company service subsidiaries had frequently been charged with bleeding operating companies. So Bond & Share forfeited all income (about $800,000 a year) from its management firm (Ebasco Services, Inc.), which began servicing the system's operating units at cost. Next, Groesbeck pulled...