Word: huff
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...huff last autumn. Professor Oliver Mitchell Wentworth Sprague resigned as money adviser to the Treasury. Since then he has returned to his chair at the Harvard Business School, has been retained as foreign exchange and trade adviser to General Motors Export Co. and has attempted to create "an aroused and organized public opinion," which he said was the only "defense from a drift into unrestrained inflation." Most conservative businessmen regarded him as their best friend and stoutest ally. Last week they were shocked and startled when Professor Sprague turned around and let fly at them because they "were not ready...
...with promises of getting them fat Army contracts at fat prices. Harry Woodring was one of those who waived immunity and testified. Past-Commander O'Neil after eagerly petitioning to be heard by the grand jury, was granted permission after waiving immunity. A third to testify was Frederick Huff Payne, who held Harry Woodring's job under the Hoover regime...
...coaches smooth and deceptive team play, foxy shifts from man-to-man to zone defenses. In spare time he studies sculpture, has made three figures. Says he: "I mold my players just like I mold my clay." East. In 1908 Harvard quit the Eastern Intercollegiate League in a huff. This season it returned, and so far has lost every conference game played. Princeton, an early favorite, slumped after the Christmas holidays. Most of its first-stringers are seniors playing their third season and apparently bored with the game. Tied for first place are Penn and Yale, last year...
...Vice President James David Mooney, in charge of exports, announced that Dr. Oliver Mitchell Wentworth Sprague, who quit Washington in a huff over President Roosevelt's money plans, had been retained as an adviser on foreign trade and exchange...
...first vice president when Thomas George Lee was made president of Armour & Co. in 1931. Vice President Armour thought he deserved the topnotch job. When the directors offered him an impotent vice-chairmanship, "P. D." III resigned in a huff. And for the first time since the Founding "P. D." went to Chicago shortly after the Civil War, Armour had no Armour executives. Two second cousins of "P. D." III and Lester stayed on as directors (and were re-elected last week) but the grandsons of "P. D.'' were...