Word: huff
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...haired, truculent 200-pounder with a temper which often sets his fists a-flying, seldom gets him into controversy with superiors who can shove him upward. As a boy out of Millville, N. J., he worked his way through Swarthmore College, played basketball and football there. Once, in a huff, he stripped off his basketball suit, marched naked from the gym. When he was an economics instructor at Carnegie Tech, he had the fortitude to take his class to hear Socialist Eugene V. Debs. At 43, he looks like a Sunday-supplement caricature of a radical...
...both International and the industry had begun to recover from their doleful declines in the early 1930s, he was invited to resign as president of International Paper, but to remain president of International Paper & Power (top holding company for all the subsidiaries). Mr. Graustein resigned from both in a huff and went back to lawyering. Richard J. Cullen, who had been in the paper business since he was 22, got his jobs...
Seven years ago, Beniamino Gigli, the tops in Italian tenors, left Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House in a huff over a salary cut. Deploring his attitude (his pay was rumored to be almost $3,000 a performance), the Met's managers tried many substitutes but found nobody who could fill the bill. Last week Tenor Gigli was welcomed back to the Met by a shouting throng. Critics still deplored his garlicky mannerisms and found the part of Radames in Aida unsuited to him, but had to admit that Tenor Gigli's singing was the finest Italian tenoring...
Mainly responsible for this unique corporation is Pilgrim's 65-year-old President James Edwin Dann. In the 1890s, when he was a young laundry foreman, James Dann had an idea that decent labor standards would promote efficiency, even in the laundry business. When he met Edward Huff Bancker, an idealistic college graduate with some money, his idea became the Pilgrim Laundry, opened...
...been made of certain Exchange members whose previous testimony indicated they knew about Richard Whitney's criminality, the Exchange should take further action. After due talk, the board, including the other two public representatives, voted 27-to-1 to drop the matter. Dr. Hutchins thereupon resigned in a huff, not visibly aiding the public...