Word: highhandedness
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¶ Harold L. Pearson, 52, lost his $42,500-a-year job as president of the Air Transport Association after six months in office. Pearson's highhanded running of A.T.A. threatened the prestige of the scheduled airlines that make up the organization; e.g., he threatened to pull airline advertising...
His failure to stamp out guerrilla warfare has apparently left Rojas embarrassed and angry; his irate closing of Colombia's biggest daily, El Tiempo, last August followed his charge that the paper had reported a car-accident death as a political murder. Most foreign observers think that such highhanded...
After dropping down to the Air Force University at Montgomery, Ala. to make a commencement speech, highhanded TV Impresario Arthur Godfrey made some less salutary remarks on a telecast. His target: Montgomery, the state's capital; it gets so hot there, said Godfrey, that folks would just curl up...
Identical Pin-Stripes. In the final tally, Hatoyama got more votes (149,541) than any Japanese Diet candidate in history. The transfer of power from the Liberals of ex-Premier Shigeru Yoshida to Hato-yama's Democrats was in great part a result of Hatoyama's personal popularity...
¶ Over the vehement opposition of the California Teachers Association, the Young Republicans, the Young Democrats, the C.I.O. and the A.F.L., the San Francisco Board of Education took highhanded revenge on teachers who opposed the reappointment of one board member last fall. By a vote of 5 to 1, the...