Word: highhandedness
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In Hospital. Rhee's highhanded ways stirred up protests all over. Australia, Britain and France, all of whom have troops fighting in Korea, sent stiff notes. U.S. Ambassador John Muccio, hurrying back from an interrupted U.S. vacation, spent almost two hours telling Rhee in fuller detail what was on...
As the deadlock tightened, tempers flared higher. Congress seethed with rancorous argument over the President's highhanded seizure of steel. Ohio's Republican Representative George H. Bender asked for a bipartisan committee to consider impeachment of Harry Truman. The Senate Labor Committee (favorable to the Administration) began hearings...
In Britain there was uneasiness about High Commissioner Templer's highhanded methods. Said Laborite Lord Listowel, onetime Colonial Minister: "Collective punishment will turn many people . . . hitherto unconcerned about politics, into Communist sympathizers." In the House of Commons 124 Labor M.P.s introduced a motion protesting collective punishment in Malaya. But...
District Judge: promised a federal judgeship by Franklin Roosevelt, he finally got the plum from Harry Truman in 1946; as district judge in Philadelphia, he earned the reputation of being a highhanded pro-Government man; most notable case before him was that of Atomic Spy Harry Gold, on whom he...
The faculty had nothing against its new president personally-even though he was a military man rather than a scholar. Rear Admiral Alvin Duke Chandler, 49, director of the Navy's logistics plans division, seemed able, energetic and affable enough, and his father, Julian A. C. Chandler, had been...