Word: highhandedness
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Tall (6 ft. 2-| in.) Tom Mechling decided to make the race a year ago while covering Washington newsheets for the Kiplinger Washington Letter. A veteran (Air Intelligence), he became a Nevadan in 1945, married the daughter of a wealthy Wells (Nev.) rancher. In Washington, Tom was a hard-digging...
As 40-odd top executives have already learned, to their great sorrow, there is no room left at the top of Montgomery Ward & Co. for anyone except highhanded Chairman Sewell Avery, 78. Last week two more Ward vice presidents resigned. They were Roy L. Gebert, top boss of Ward'...
Behind Shuttleworth's acquittal lay more than softheadedness on the part of Prime Minister Daniel Malan's hardhearted government. The Nationalists are thoroughly alarmed by the uproar provoked in South Africa's armed forces by Defense Minister Erasmus' highhanded attempt to oust veterans of World War...
Everyone seems to disapprove of 77-year-old Syngman Rhee except the voters of South Korea. The U.S., Great Britain and the U.N. clicked their tongues in disapproval at President Rhee's highhanded way of running his nation. A majority of Korea's parliamentarians were violent and vociferous...
Said an old Syngman Rhee crony last week: when Rhee gets a critical note from President Truman or the State Department, his attitude is-"I know you don't like me and I don't care." Last week, obviously not caring how his acts affect his allies or...